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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has finally addressed the claim by a news publication that Peter Obi, the Labour Party flagbearer, won the 2023 presidential election in Rivers state.
Premium Times on Sunday, April 16, reported that its findings revealed Obi won the presidential election in Rivers state and not the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
INEC reacts to report Obi won 2023 presidential poll in Rivers
Reacting to the development, INEC said that the trending report suggesting that Obi won the presidential election in Rivers state and not Tinubu was “prejudicial”.
In a chat with Leadership on Sunday, April 16, in Abuja, the chief press secretary to the INEC chairman, Rotimi Oyekanmi, said:
“While the Premium Times reserves the right to publish reports on various issues, it is a known fact that when a matter is before a court, no one, including a media organisation, should comment on it. “It is for this reason that I cannot comment on it,” he further stated.
