BUSINESS DAY
Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, has berated the conduct of the just concluded Edo election, noting that the country’s democratic process is “doomed”.
In a statement on his X account on Monday, Obi said the election lacks democratic tenets and erodes the true values of democracy.
“What happened over the weekend in the name of election in Edo State does not in any way represent the democratic process we chose as a method of electing our political leadership,” Obi said.
“Instead, it was a blatant example of ‘state capture’ and continued gross undermining of our democratic process and values,” he added.
“Any nation whose leadership recruitment process is so fatally flawed is doomed, and we are all seeing the effect in our country,” he further stated.
The keenly contested governorship election saw Monday Okpebholo, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) polled 291,667 votes.
He was followed closely by Asue Ighodalo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who polled 247,655 votes while Olumide Akpata, representing the Labour Party (LP), finished third, receiving a total of 22,763 votes.
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