The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has said the Supreme Court judgement that affirmed President Bola Tinubu’s victory contradicted the “overwhelming evidence of rigging and false claims of technical glitch” among others presented before the court.
Mr Obi stated this in Abuja on Monday while addressing a press conference on the recent court judgement on the election.
Last month, PREMIUM TIMES reported how the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal filed by Mr Obi of the Labour Party and that of the People’s Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, challenging the election of Mr Tinubu.
The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) had in September dismissed the petitions filed by Messrs Atiku and Obi, who came second and third respectively in the 25 February presidential poll.
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“It is, therefore, with great dismay that I observe that the Court’s decision contradicts the overwhelming evidence of election rigging, false claim of a technical glitch, substantial non-compliance with rules set by INEC itself as well as matters of perjury, identity theft, and forgery that have been brought to light in the course of this election matter,” Mr Obi said.
The LP candidate’s reaction to the Supreme Court verdict was about two weeks after the court affirmed Mr Tinubu’s victory at the poll.
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