2023 election is a great setback in Nigeria’s democratic process – Peter Obi
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has described the 2023 presidential election as the worst in Nigeria’s recent history and a setback in the democratic process.
Mr Obi said this when he was featured on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday.
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Recalled that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Bola Ahmed Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of the February 25 presidential election.
Tinubu emerged winner after polling 8,794,726 votes ahead of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who polled 6,984,520 votes, and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) who got 6,101,533 votes.
Obi has refused to concede defeat and vowed to contest the election results in court.
Speaking about the election, Obi said, “We have seen probably what I consider the worst election in our recent history because of the Electoral law [Act] of 2022 which gave so much hope and the huge expenditure we put into technology.
“Do you know what it means to spend over $1bn? So, there was so much that was promised and then we went back to what it used to be. For me, that is very devastating.”
He says the conduct of the presidential election has further dampened the morale of youths who had so much hope in the process adding that he is “on course” to getting justice.
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