BREAKING: APC Reacts To Obi’s Victory Claim

BREAKING: APC Reacts To Obi’s Victory Claim

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council has challenged the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on his claim that he won last Saturday’s presidential election, accusing him of attempting to delegitimize the mandate given to its candidate, Bola Tinubu.

The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Tinubu the winner on Wednesday, with 8,794,726 votes. According to INEC, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) finished second with 6,984,520 votes, and Obi finished third with 6,101,533 votes.

Reacting to the result declared by INEC in a press briefing on Thursday, Obi claimed that he won the poll and said he will explore all legal options to reclaim his mandate.

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But in a swift reaction to the claim by the Labour Party candidate, the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign Council in a statement signed by its Director of Public Affairs and Chief Spokesperson, Festus Keyamo, described Obi’s claim as “outlandish”.

“We make this brief statement in reaction to the Press briefing held earlier today by the defeated candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, wherein (in his now well-acknowledged penchant for spewing falsehood) he made the outlandish claim before the world that he won the 2023 Presidential Election, but he was robbed of the victory.

“Having been officially declared winner of the 2023 Presidential Election by the Independent National Electoral Commission and having received his Certificate of Return (along with his Vice-President Elect), the President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu would have ignored these continuous false claims being peddled by Mr. Peter Obi and his supporters. But we recognise his motive of doing this is to simply delegitimise the mandate freely given to the President-Elect by the majority of Nigerians,” the statement said.

The APC PCC claimed that Obi could not have won because he had “played the most divisive religious politics in our history.”

Noting that Tinubu has extended a hand of fellowship to his opponents, including Obi, to join hands with him in nation-building, the APC campaign council stated that Obi, as a committed patriot, should embrace that hand of fellowship and brotherhood extended by the President-elect rather than “engaging in this crass grandstanding.”

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