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Peter Obi Weeps On Live TV Over 2023 Election Results [Video]

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BREAKING: Peter Obi Weeps On Live TV Over 2023 Election Results [Video]

Peter Obi weeps on live TV over 2023 Election Results, says Labour won the election.

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Newsone reports that the flag bearer of the Labour Party (LP) in the just-concluded presidential election in Nigeria, Peter Obi says he won the poll and he will explore all legal options to reclaim his mandate.

Just at the commencement of his first media briefing after Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections, Obi observed a one-minute silence for all injured and deceased victims of the February 25 poll.

“We will explore all legal and peaceful option to reclaim our mandate. We won the election and we will prove it to Nigerians,” Obi said at a press conference on Thursday in Abuja.

“I am challenging the process,” Peter Obi said to a room full of journalists in Nigeria’s capital city, his first media appearance after the declaration of a winner by the electoral umpire.

“This is very unfair. It is the least expected of Nigeria,” he said, adding that “a new Nigeria is possible, and I will work for that new Nigeria… Datti and I remain committed to that new Nigeria.”

Asked if he is under pressure, Peter Obi said no one can put him under pressure for challenging the rascality, saying that: “We have to go through this darkness. The structure of criminality can’t go out overnight.

“All we need to show is commitment and resilience. I will be at the forefront and will work through this darkness until daybreak,” Obi vowed.

Obi, who lamented that Nigeria cannot conduct elections 63 years after independence, assured youths in the country that he is not going away but will stay and work for a new Nigeria.

The Labour Party Presidential Candidate said the poll did not meet the minimum standard for a free and fair election, adding that the poll will go down as the most controversial election conducted in Nigeria.

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Meanwhile, Newsone had reported earlier that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the 2023 presidential election.

This online news platform understands that the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu declared Tinubu the winner at exactly 4.10 am today in Abuja. By this declaration, Tinubu would be the 16th leader of Nigeria since independence in 1960.

The former Lagos state governor polled total votes of 8,794,726 to defeat his closest rival and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar who scored 6,984,520 votes, and Peter Obi of Labour party who polled 6,101,533 votes.

Newsone Nigeria reports that the presidential candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso came a distant fourth with total votes of 1,496,687 votes.

Yakubu said the registered voters for the election were 93,469,008, while 25,286,616 voters were accredited.

The INEC Chairman put the total valid votes at 24,025,940, while the total rejected votes were 939,278. He said the total number of votes cast was 24,965,218.

He declared: “I certify that I am the returning officer for the 2023 presidential election held on the 25th of February 2003.

“That Tinubu Bola Ahmed of the APC, having satisfied the requirements of the law is hereby declared the winner and returned elected. The Certificate of Return to the president-elect and Vice president-elect will take place here at 3 pm today.”

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