A large number of supporters of Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi demonstrated in the Federal Capital Territory on Wednesday against alleged election manipulation.
The protesters, mostly young people, gathered at Abuja’s Unity Fountain on Wednesday morning to demand that the allegedly tampered with presidential election results be annulled.
The Labour Party’s National Campaign Manager, Isaac Balami, who spoke at the protest site, claimed that the party agents’ results differed from those announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
He said, “We are here to activate the process of getting back out stolen mandate. We believe and we have it on record that APC did not win this election.”
“We have our results. The results they announced are not what our agents have. We are not here to fight, we are here to tell the whole world that our mandate has been stolen and we are not going just sit at home and cry.”
Remember that INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu declared Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the election winner.
Tinubu received 8,794,726 votes, defeating his closest rivals and PDP candidates, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi of the Labour Party, who received 6,984, 520, and 6,101,533 votes, respectively.