The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and his Labour Party (LP) counterpart, Peter Obi, have vowed to challenge the victory of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in court.
WITHIN NIGERIA had reported that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared Tinubu as president-elect on Wednesday morning.
The PDP described Tinubu’s victory as “a grave injustice which will not stand.”
The spokesman and Director Public Affairs of the PDP Presidential Campaign Committee, Senator Dino Melaye, in a terse statement on Wednesday evening, said there will be no going back on the battle to retrieve the mandate which he called a “stolen one.”
Melaye said: “A clarion call on all Atiku’s supporters all over the world not to be perturbed. Weeping may tarry till night but joy cometh in the morning.
“This grave injustice shall not stand. The battle to retrieve our stolen mandate is a battle of no retreat, no surrender. We shall overcome,” he said.
Obi on the other hand, said he would contest Tinubu’s victory through legal and peaceful means.
The LP candidate said this on Wednesday in Abuja at a press conference addressed by his running mate, Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed.
“On behalf of our presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, I address you all and indeed all Nigerians on the current situation in the country following the announcement of the purported result of the presidential election held on Saturday, February 25th 2023.
“Please be assured of our determination to fight the injustice that has been perpetrated on Nigerians through all legal and peaceful means. It is our position that the purported result did not meet the minimum criteria of a transparent, free and fair election,” Baba-Ahmed said.
He, however, thanked all Nigerians for their belief in them and for coming out en masse to vote for the Labour Party and for the cause they believed in, which he said was the birth of a new Nigeria.