How I Won But Was Rigged Out In Rivers, Benue – Peter Obi

How I Won But Was Rigged Out In Rivers, Benue – Peter Obi

Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate, has explained how he allegedly won but was robbed out during the collation of the results of the February 25 election in Rivers and Benue States.

Mr Obi stated this in a petition he filed on Tuesday to challenge the election victory of President-elect Bola Tinubu, who was declared the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

He claimed he would win the election if illegal votes were removed from Mr Tinubu’s totals in several states.

Both Benue and Rivers are among the 12 states declared won by Mr Tinubu by INEC.

INEC reported that the president-elect received 8,794,726 votes in the election, which was essentially a four-horse race.

With 6,984,520 votes, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who also won in 12 states, came in second.

Mr Obi finished third with 6,101,533 votes after leading in 11 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.

With 1,496,687 votes, Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) finished fourth. He only won in Kano State.

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Mr Obi named Benue and Rivers among the 21 states where he is contesting the presidential election results.

However, the public copy of the petition does not include the details of the alleged manipulations.

The petition, on the other hand, cited the INEC figures and contrasted them with what the petitioners believed to be the true scores from Benue and Rivers.

In Rivers, Mr Obi and his party recalled that INEC announced Mr Tinubu’s votes as 231,591 and theirs as 175,071 at the National Collation Centre in Abuja.

The margin of victory between Mr Tinubu and Mr Obi, who finished second in the state, was calculated to be 56,520 votes.

The petitioners, however, claimed that, contrary to INEC’s declaration, “the actual scores obtained at the polling units” showed that they received 205,110 votes, while Mr Tinubu received 84,108.

Mr Obi and the Labour Party claimed that this was the margin by which they should have defeated Mr Tinubu and the APC in Rivers State.

Disputing the figures, however, Mr Obi said in his petition that he won the state with 329,003 votes, while Mr Tinubu trailed him with 300,421 votes.

By simple calculation, this would have given Mr Obi 28,582 votes as his margin of win in Benue State.

Mr Obi argued that by INEC’s “unlawful announcement”, he was denied as the winner of the election in Benue and Rivers states.

He told the court that he would prove this during the trial using “the forensic analysis of the election for Rivers State and Benue State made pursuant to the inspection of the election materials as ordered by the court.”

If the court accepts Mr Obi’s results from the two states, it would take only 157,483 votes from the about 3 million votes margin by which Mr Tinubu is ahead of him based on the final tally announced by INEC.

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