Politics
Election Result: Peter Obi Makes U-turn Says He Will Challenge Not Only Election Process But Also The Outcome
Peter Obi has clarified his earlier assertion that he would only contest the steps taken to declare Bola Tinubu the victor of the presidential election on February 25 and not the result itself.
The Labour Party’s presidential candidate stated that he would only challenge the electoral procedure by which the Independent National Electoral Commission declared Tinubu the winner of the presidential election, not the declaration itself, in an interview on Arise TV’s “The Morning Show” on Monday, March 13.
Obi said: “I’m not challenging who they declared. I’m not challenging whatever…the outcome, I’m challenging the process (through) which they arrived at their declaration.”
He continued: “And unless we do that, we’re not going to stop the rascality we witnessed in that election.
“The process through which people come into office is for me…far more fundamental than what they do thereafter. There is a process of doing things. There is a process of arriving at any destination. Like I said in my press conference, if you’re going to answer ‘His Excellency’, the process of coming to that position must be excellent. If you’re going to be a Bishop, there’s a process of being a Bishop.”
However, later on Monday Obi took to Twitter to reveal that he would challenge both the electoral process and the declaration itself.
He tweeted: “Following my response to a question while appearing on Arise TV earlier today, I want to state categorically that at the Presidential Elections Tribunal (PET), I am challenging the INEC electoral process that led to the declaration of Tinubu as president-elect as well as the declaration itself.”
