Omoyele Sowore, presidential candidate of the African Action
Congress (AAC), says the election results do not “reflect the will of the
people”.
His statement comes amid criticisms of the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) over its failure to electronically
transmit results to its portal.
On Wednesday, Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the commission,
declared Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress
(APC), as the winner of the election.
Yakubu said the APC standard bearer secured a total of 8,794,726 votes to win the election.
Meanwhile, Sowore was only able to garner 14, 608 votes in
the election.
Speaking in his state of the nation address on Wednesday,
Sowore said the 2023 presidential election “did not meet any legal requirements
of what should be called a free, fair and credible election”.
“This particular election, by their own standard, did not
meet any of the legal requirements that say every election result must be
scanned and uploaded to the INEC server. But there is nothing new about it,
before this election, I had said INEC wasn’t ready for this election,” he said.
“We categorically
condemn the election that was held on the 25th of February as a fraudulent
election that didn’t meet the standard of what should be called a free, fair
and credible election.
“There is nothing surprising about it. We knew that these
criminals in our system have no interest in organising a free and fair
election. What they did was a selection as they usually do, they have just
given you the candidate of the choice of the criminal political elite in
Nigeria.
“Any figures, either for me or against me or them or against
them that you see during this election were concocted and manufactured
fraudulently.”
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Labour Party (LP) and
New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) have also called for a fresh election.
The opposition parties also demanded the resignation of
Yakubu as INEC chairperson.
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