Former Director General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign, Doyin Okupe has dismissed claims by Peter Obi that the 2023 presidential election was rigged.
The former National Republican Congress, NRC, National Chairman, wondered what informed Obi’s allegation.
Okupe, therefore, wondered how Obi is claiming that the election was rigged when President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress, APC, lost in Tinubu’s state, Lagos. And lost also in Katsina, home of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
Okupe stated this in a statement on Thursday.
He said: “If Peter Obi (2023 LP presidential candidate) or the Labour Party says APC rigged elections, how come Obi was able to win in the home base of President Bola Tinubu?
“How come APC lost election in the home base of the then sitting President (Muhammadu Buhari)? How come APC lost election in the home base of the Secretary to that government?
“So, the accusations about rigging do not hold water. They do not hold water at all.
“The truth of the matter is that under the best of conditions, the results we got may not have been the exact results. But they will have that ratio.”
The former presidential aid, therefore, accused the opposition of being unrealistic with their claims. He dismissed the claim that “the presidency was stolen”.
He said, “There’s nothing like that. No presidency was stolen. I am not saying there was no rigging.”
Recall that following the 2023 presidential election, INEC announced President Bola Ahmed Tinubu the winner. He was followed by Atiku Abubakar of the PDP and Obi of LP came a distant third.
However, after the declaration of results, Obi and his followers, the Obidient Movement, had alleged that the election was rigged.
They claimed that Obi won the election but the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, rigged that election in favour of Tinubu.
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