The Labour Party (LP) has told President Muhammadu Buhari that the All Progressives Congress (APC) did not win the 2023 presidential election.
According
to LP, the ruling party “stole” the the people’s mandate.
The LP
was reacting to a comment by President Muhammadu Buhari that opposition parties
lost the poll due to overconfidence and bad tactics.
Obiora
Ifoh, LP’s acting national publicity secretary, in a statement on Friday, said
“the president was “completely wrong to say opposition parties lost because of
over confidence”.
He
said the opposition parties lost the poll because “it was manipulated and
rigged beyond comprehension”.
“The
Labour Party is very worried and disturbed with the statement from the office
of the President wherein he said that the opposition parties lost the 2023
presidential election because of their overconfidence, complacency and bad
tactical moves, and which he claimed created more problems for them,” the
statement reads.
“We want to point it out clearly to President
Muhammadu Buhari that his 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.
“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 so doing, created room for that election to be rigged.
“Again,
the current APC president elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu didn’t win the election,
because the said election, particularly, the presidential election was
manipulated and rigged beyond comprehension.
“So
political parties didn’t lose election because of over confidence or
complacency as proffered by Mr. President, APC, in collaboration with the
various government agencies, simply rigged the election and rigged themselves
into power.
“All
of these put together. Do they amount to over confidence and complacency on the
part of the opposition party? It shows that the President who promised
Nigerians that he was going to give Nigerians a free, fair, and credible
election simply failed in his duty in giving Nigerians the election they
deserved.
“So,
Mr. President is completely wrong. I believe that he was ill advised. It was
erroneous for him to say that opposition parties lost election because of over
confidence.
“In
fact, Labour Party won the election but it was brazenly stolen by APC. Mr.
President is aware of the fact that APC did not win the election and that it
was stolen.”
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