Controversy over the build-up to the 2023 presidential election rages on, with a new report claiming that the Labour Party’s (LP) Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, was intentionally targeted.
According to news sources, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, National Chairperson of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, has proclaimed Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) the winner of the February 25th polls.
According to him, Tinubu received 8,794,726 votes, or more than 25% of the votes cast in 30 states, which is more than the legally minimum 24 states.
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Yakubu further stated that Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) finished second with 6,984,520 votes, while Peter Obi finished third with 6,101,533 votes.
Both Atiku and Obi have challenged the results in the Presidential Election Tribunal, claiming significant noncompliance with the Electoral Act and INEC rules, voter intimidation/voter suppression, violence, and result manipulation, among other violations.
The Labour Party, on the other hand, claims that because of the ferocity of Peter Obi’s legal challenge, he has been a victim of state-sponsored intimidation, extortion, threats, invasion of privacy, and other deception aimed at getting him to drop his legal battle.
According to a member of the LP Presidential Campaign Council who requested anonymity, the attacks on the Labour Party candidate began as soon as the campaigns began.
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He said, “We have since been made aware of the orchestrated move by the state to sabotage our candidate starting from our campaigns.
“They tried entrapment by stationing all kinds of women at hotels where our candidate lodged during the campaigns that failed.
“They have been going through records of his financial dealings and bank accounts. They’ve found nothing incriminating.
“They tried bringing up the Panama papers that also failed to stick, then they resorted to the oldest trick in the book-wire tapping.”
Remember that Dr Yunusa Tanko, the Chief Spokesman of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, recently claimed that Peter Obi has recently come under heavy pressure to depart Nigeria.
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He said, “Most unfortunately, in the past few weeks, Mr Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate in the February 25th, 2023 presidential election has been contacted by associates, elder statesmen, family and friends with concerns for his personal safety.
“These concerns have increased intensely in the last few days as immense pressure, has been mounted directly on Mr Obi to leave the country, no doubt, from sources allied to the All-Progressive Congress (APC) and its agents in the security services.
“ Mr Obi has been repeatedly and categorically told that he has a choice to leave Nigeria or face the prospect of being arrested on false charges of inciting insurrection in the country.
“It is difficult to fathom and regrettably unfortunate that state institutions have become part of a well calculated, deliberate and orchestrated campaign of calumny by the APC to discredit and delegitimize Mr Peter Obi and compel him to abandon his right to seek redress in court following the outcome of the last election which was adjudged both locally and internationally to have failed to meet any standard of credibility or fairness.”
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Auwual Musa Rafsanjani, a public affairs analyst and Executive Director of the Civil Societies Legislative and Advocacy Centre, believes that citizens have a constitutionally guaranteed right to freely hold and express their beliefs within the limitations of the law.
He recounted how, in the run-up to the 2015 elections, opposition politicians vowed to form a parallel government if the results were falsified. “They were never accused of treason.”
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