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BREAKING: Tinubu Raises 12 Strong Points To Challenge Peter Obi In Court
The President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu through All Progressive Congress (APC) President Campaign Council (PCC) raises some strong point to challenge the Labour party (LP), Peter Obi in court.
The President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu through All Progressive Congress (APC) President Campaign Council (PCC) raises some strong point to challenge the Labour party (LP), Peter Obi in court.
This Online Newspaper reported that Obi has in a press conference address assures Nigerians to take every peaceful and legal process to challenge the outcome of the presidential election in the court of law.
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Tinubu through the party’s Director, Media and Publicity, Bayo Onanuga in a statement issued on Thursday May 2 said Obi’s decision to seek redress in court is welcomed if he is convinced of the evidence of electoral frauds he will present before the tribunal as alleged.
Some of the points raise by the party to challenge Obi are listed below:
- That Labour Party and Mr Obi surprised bookmakers by winning in Lagos State, Nasarawa, Plateau, Delta and Edo where there are sitting governors of either the All Progressives Congress or the Peoples Democratic Party. Those governors have entrenched political machinery. That Obi won attests to the credibility of the election process. In those states, most of the sitting governors contested election to go to the Senate and lost to little-known candidates of the Labour Party.
- The Labour Party also swept the entire five South East states under the control of either APGA, PDP or APC.
- That the Labour Party Presidential Candidate contradicted himself and exposed himself to public ridicule by suggesting that the election was only credible in states and places his party won.
- We need us to forewarn Mr Obi, that when he gets to court he should be prepared to tell the world how his party won over 90% of votes in his region of South East while other parties got almost nothing. We have evidence of voter suppression, intimidation and harassment in the South East especially of those who came out to vote for our party.
- Also when Mr Obi gets to court, he will have to convince the court with his allegation of rigging in over 40,000 polling units across the country, especially in North West and North East where his party had no party agents and did not sign results sheets as required by law. It is our assumption that the Labour Party will enlist PDP agents to prove its fraud claims since it is an affiliate of PDP.
- We want to state again for the umpteenth time that Mr Obi didn’t win the presidential election and could not have won under any circumstances. This is because he had no path to winning a national election in a multi-ethnic and multi-religious society like Nigeria where a candidate running in a national election must appeal to the cross-section of our pluralistic society.
- Mr. Obi anchored his presidential campaign on the failed strategy of ethnicity and religion, the divisive and dangerous politics that has hobbled the progress of our country for decades.
- Nigerians simply rejected an ethnic and religious bigot through their ballots.
- Mr. Obi all through his campaign presented himself as the candidate of the Christians and the Church, who wanted to help ‘take back their country” from the Nigerian Muslims.
- His campaign also ran on the engine of ethnicity, inflaming strong Igbo sentiments. He also sought to cash in on the supposed youth discontent in Nigeria, as fueled by the ENDSARS protest in 2020.