2023 Presidential Election: Peter Obi Disputes INEC Results In 21 States (FULL LIST)

2023 Presidential Election: Peter Obi Disputes INEC Results In 21 States (FULL LIST)

Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate, has challenged the results of the February 25 election in 21 of Nigeria’s 36 states.

The 21 states include three of the eleven states won by Mr. Obi according to the final results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Mr Obi is contesting only the figures attributed to Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who was declared the winner of the hotly contested election.

Mr Obi, who finished third in the election according to INEC’s official results, filed a case at the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja on Tuesday to challenge Mr Tinubu’s victory.

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He claimed in the petition, which he filed alongside his party, that the election was marred by various forms of corruption, including overvoting, vote suppression, and noncompliance with Electoral Act provisions in various states.

He is contesting the INEC results in Rivers, Lagos, Taraba, Benue, Adamawa, Imo, Bauchi, Borno, Kaduna, and Plateau states.

Ekiti, Oyo, Ondo, Taraba, Osun, Kano, Katsina, Kwara, Gombe, Yobe, and Niger complete the list.

According to the results announced by INEC on March 1st, Mr Obi won in 11 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.

He is disputing the outcome of the poll in 21 states of the federation, including three that INEC declared him to have won. The three states are – Lagos, Imo, and Plateau. The other eight states and the FCT that he won are excluded from the list.

In Lagos, Imo, Plateau and seven others “and other states of the federation” not specified in the petition, Mr Obi said “the votes recorded for the 2nd respondent (Mr Tinubu) did not comply with the legitimate process for computation of the result and disfavoured the petitioners”.

The 10 states including the three won by him are Rivers, Lagos, Taraba, Benue, Adamawa, Imo, Bauchi, Borno, Kaduna, and Plateau.

In the remaining 11 states whose results he is challenging, the Labour Party candidate alleged that the outcome of the election was marred by overvoting.

He claimed there was overvoting in Taraba and Borno, the state of Mr Tinubu’s running mate and vice-president-elect, Kashim Shettima.

According to Mr Obi, the 11 states where overvoting occurred are Ekiti, Oyo, Ondo, Taraba, Osun, Kano, Katsina, Kwara, Gombe, Yobe, and Niger.

According to Mr Obi’s forensic analysis of the election materials, votes cast in polling units “exceeded the number of voters accredited on the BVAS in those states.”

The breakdown of the discrepancies in the figures is not included in the body of the public petition. However, the petitioners cited a forensic analysis report that they claimed contained all of the necessary information.

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