The victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, must not stand, according to the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organization (PDP PCO).
Don Pedro Obaseki, the PDP PCC’s Director of Planning and Strategy, condemned Tinubu’s victory as an electoral theft that should not be disregarded while speaking with journalists in Abuja on Wednesday.
Obaseki claimed that the February 25 vote was the most heinously distorted election in the history of the nation and that the 2023 presidential election was in fact brazenly rigged beyond all ethical bounds and implications.
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The PDP leader asserted that the PDP and Atiku Abubakar, its presidential candidate, were the “manipulated election’s” first-degree victims.
He said: “We have gone through a round of the most dastardly skewed election in the history of this country, I don’t want to say since the return to democracy. It is an accepted fact that this election was indeed brazenly rigged beyond all known ethics and ramifications.
“However, what is a little bit disturbing in the media space, particularly in the social media space, is that the election was stolen. But from whom was it stolen?
“There must be a frontline, primary victim of the theft. The first-degree victim of that is my party and presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
“Secondly, we are aware that in Nigeria since 1960 at independence and since we became a Republic in 1963, no court has upturned even the most brazen election before now. All those elections pale in comparison to what befell Nigerians in 2023.”
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Obaseki emphasized the need to alert the Nigerian judiciary to the fact that the party’s appeal before the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal threatens the integrity of the Nigerian state.
According to him, the Supreme Court Justices and everyone else involved in the decision-making process in this election affair must take into account both the spirit and the law of the constitution.
Obaseki said: “The onus lies upon them to look at both the spirit and letters of the law and the very marginalized feelings of every Nigerian and do what is right and correct in the public domain so as to save this country and the sanctity of our commonwealth.
“They must understand that the 2023 presidential election tribunal proceeding is not just the petitioner and the respondent that are on trial. It is the Nigerian judiciary that is on trial.
“This is why I called my friends (in the media) those who are the Fourth Estate of the Realm and those who must be the forebearers of the conscience of this country so that we begin to talk and not be dwarfed in the noise of the theft and the real election results, not the ones that Mahmood Yakubu announced.
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“And the implications therefrom of the commission’s official position that has been taken by Mahmood Yakubu in pronouncing the APC presidential flag bearer the winner of the election.
“I was in the very fulcrum, the very engine room. I was in charge of strategy, from drafting to curating and monitoring the elections from all the 176,000 plus polling units across the country.
“I know who won not only because the person is my principal but because the truth must be told. We can no longer continue in this blatant disregard of our people.”
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