INDEPENDENT
The Labour Party (LP) has revealed that the President, Muhammadu Buhari, is aware that its candidate, Peter Obi, won the February 25 presidential election.
The party was responding to a recent remark by President Muhammadu Buhari wherein he said that the opposition parties lost the 2023 presidential election because of their “overconfidence, complacency and bad tactical moves”.
Buhari also claimed that the alleged overconfidence of the opposition created more problems for them.
In a swift reaction to Buhari’s comment, LP through the Acting National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, pointed out that President Buhari’s “position on the outcome of the said election was false, untrue, and it is not a true reflection of what played out during the election”.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has asserted that while the APC was working hard to retain power in the recent elections, the combined opposition was busy telling their foreign backers that they would defeat the APC.
But LP in the statement explained that “There are several reasons why opposition political parties lost the 2023 election; the first is that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC snubbed the electoral act wherein it failed to upload the result from the polling unit in real time as promised and in disregard to the laws guiding the election. The INEC by doing so, created room for that election to be rigged…
