Peter Obi: I will challenge election result in court

Peter Obi, flag bearer of the Labour Party (LP) has vowed to challenge the outcome of Saturday’s presidential election in court.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday announced Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the winner of the election.

INEC said Tinubu polled 8,794,726 votes, defeating Atiku, who came close to winning with 6,984,520 votes and Peter Obi who had 6,101,533 votes.

During a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, Obi said the election was a clear deviation from electoral rules and guidelines contrary to what we were promised.

He added that it did not meet the minimum standard expected of a free, fair, transparent and credible election and will go down as one of the “most controversial elections ever conducted in Nigeria”.

The former governor said Nigerians have again been robbed by supposed leaders whom they trusted and vowed to challenge the result in court.

“Let me reassure the good people of Nigeria that we will explore all legal and peaceful options to reclaim our mandate. We won the election and I will prove it to Nigerians,” he said.

Obi added that the process through which people come into power is more important than what they do in office and promised to challenge the rascality of the electoral process.

“It is my belief that if you must answer your excellency, the process through which you arrive at the office must be excellent,” he said.

“We must now require that we do the right thing in order to generate the right confidence and moral authority to lead.

“As you know, the structure of society begins and gradually retrogresses when we act rascally and deliberately in the manipulation of rule of law and suppression of the will of the people.

“On this issue (presidential election) I am challenging the process. I will challenge this rascality for the future of the country.

“The court exists for this and they have asked me to go to court and I will be going to court.”