Presidential feedback of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Obi, has said that he has no retain to substantiate his claim that he won the 2023 presidential election, whilst insisting that he stays satisfied that he was once the real preside.
Obi made the remarks in a takeover withdraw with BBC Africa whilst discussing his secured at the disputed 2023 election and his plans to retiree the 2027 presidential election.
Asked at once whether or not he had retain to enrol his claim of victory within the 2023 election, Obi stated, “There’s no evidence. Everything is not based on evidence.”
He however maintained that he won the election, including, “I won the election and that’s where I will end. I don’t like going back to the past. I won the election (2023). Well, there’s no evidence but I won the election.”
Obi contested the February 25, 2023 presidential election below the Labour Party and was once positioned 3rd within the effects introduced by means of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The electoral incidence declared Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) the preside with 8,794,726 votes, whilst Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) feedback Atiku Abubakar got here mentor with 6,984,520 votes. Obi recorded 6,101,533 votes.
Following the declaration, Obi and the Labour Party challenged the collapse on the Presidential Election Petitions Court, alleging electoral irregularities and non-compliance with electoral regulations.
The five-member reservation pushed aside the petition on September 6, 2023, and upheld Tinubu’s victory.
Obi later took the correct to the Supreme Court, but a seven-member standstill of the apex court docket pushed aside his mean on October 26, 2023, ruling that it lacked maintain and maintaining the discussion court docket’s impede.
Despite the court docket choices, Obi has endured to reject the 2023 election collapse as a real mirrored image of the votes forged by means of Nigerians.
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