Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, who was visibly devastated to the point that he cried on national television, albeit maintaining decent composure, yesterday, insisted he won last Saturday’s presidential election and would not only challenge it, but would prove he actually won it.
Obi, who also boasted about his confidence in the judiciary, citing his experience as governor, insisted he would prove to the court how he won the election, even as he accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of tampering with existing data of voters.
In equal breath, Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, for the first time, reacted to the outcome of the exercise, which he claimed was not only flawed, but the worst since 1999 and as such, must be challenged.
Atiku, who reiterated his confidence in the judiciary, by recounting his ordeal as vice-president, when he took his principal, Olusegun Obasanjo, to court eleven times and won all of the 11 times, refused to meet a reconciliatory team of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Bola Tinubu, who visited him yesterday, saying he had no knowledge they visited him.
The two presidential hopefuls, who came second and third after results of the presidential election was announced by the INEC, spoke at separate world conferences in Abuja, the nation’s capital.Meanwhile, the APC Presidential Campaign Council, has asked Obi to either accept the olive branch extended to him by Tinubu or meet its lawyers in court, while at the same time, dismissed Atiku’s claims on the election as delusional, because he reaped what he sowed after allegedly causing division in his party.
