The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, on Thursday has claimed that he won the just-concluded February 25 presidential election.
Obi stated that he will prove to Nigerians that he won the presidential election.
Addressing a press conference on Thursday in Abuja, Obi said he will explore all legal avenues to recover his mandate.
The LP candidate, who was making his first public appearance since the February 25 elections, said that the exercise failed to meet the minimum standard of a free and fair election, hence he will approach the Court to reclaim his mandate.
Obi also asked LP members and supporters in the country to troop out en mass and vote the party’s candidates in the forthcoming March 11 Governorship and State House of Assembly elections nationwide.
According to the former Anambra State Governor, the Labour Party “is not in any alliance with any group. What we have is a partnership with any group” who wishes to reclaim the mandate.
He added that he is willing to join those with moral authority to fight the battle of reclaiming the controversial election with the belief that he won.
He queried the process which produced Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, who was announced the winner of the election.
According to Obi, “With this process, how can we trail kidnappers and robbers who are doing the wrong thing?”
He said he would head to court as told, noting that, “We were asked to go to court.
“Remember that I’m Obidient. I’m going to go where I’m directed to go and then you will see where and how.”
DAILY GIST reported that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had in the wee hours of Wednesday declared the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as the winner of the presidential election, defeating his closest challenger, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who was closely trailed behind by the LP candidate.
