The campaign of the opposition Labor Party stresses that Peter Obi “won” the presidential elections in Nigeria

March 1 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The campaign of the opposition Labor Party has stressed this Wednesday that its candidate, Peter Obi, “won” the presidential elections in Nigeria, hours after the electoral commission declared the candidate of the government All Progressives Congress (APC) the winner. Tinubu ball.

“We have won these elections,” said Labor Party vice-presidential candidate Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed. “The Nigerian people are the winner. Nigerians expect Peter Obi and myself to take power,” he said, before adding that both “are going to claim the mandate as the Labor Party.”

Thus, Baba-Ahmed has indicated that “the results of these supposed elections do not meet the minimum standards” and has promised to “continue the fight”, according to the Nigerian newspaper ‘Vanguard’. “We ask Nigerians to continue fighting for their rights,” he pointed out, before calling on the population to vote for the party in the upcoming elections for governors and state parliaments.

According to the results published by the Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (INEC), Tinubu has obtained about 8.8 million votes, compared to the nearly seven million collected by Atiku Abubakar, of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and around of 6.1 million ballots obtained by Obi.

The president-elect has applauded the electoral commission for “leading free and fair elections” and has highlighted that “the lapses that took place have been relatively few in number and have not affected the final results.” Likewise, he has extended “the hand of friendship” to the rest of the candidates and has outlined that “all appeals to the electoral results must be presented before the courts, not in the streets.”

The results have been announced a day after the three main opposition parties in Nigeria demanded the repetition of the elections alleging irregularities and demanded that Yakubu be removed from the face of a new holding of the presidential and parliamentary elections. In this way, they maintained that the elections are “irreparably compromised” and denounced a manipulation of the results due to the delays in the publication of the minutes on the Internet.

The winner of the election will replace Buhari, who was unable to run because he has already served the term limit set by the Nigerian Constitution. The elections also mark the first time since the return of the country to civilian rule in 1999 in which none of the candidates is a former military leader, as was the case with Buhari, who led the country between December 1983 and August. 1985 after a coup.