Lawrence Okoro, an X user who claims to be a former member of the Obidient Movement, has alleged that Peter Obi, the 2023 Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, once admitted he lost the election.
The presidential election, held on February 25, 2023, was
contested by Obi, alongside other candidates, including President Bola Tinubu,
who was then the flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
According to results declared by
the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Obi came third with
6,101,533 votes, behind Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),
who polled 6,984,520 votes, while Tinubu won the election with 8,794,726 votes.
However, during a press conference in Abuja on March 2,
2023, Obi insisted he
won the election and would prove it legally.
“This election will go down as one of the most controversial
elections ever conducted in Nigeria,” the former governor of Anambra said.
“The good people of Nigeria have again been robbed. However,
I appeal to Nigerians to remain peaceful and law-abiding.
“This is not the end but a beginning… We will explore all
legal and peaceful options to reclaim our mandate. We won the election and we
will prove it to Nigerians.”
‘OBI ADMITTED HE LOST THE ELECTION’
In a post shared
on X on Tuesday, Okoro alleged that the former LP presidential candidate later
“openly admitted” he “lost the election” due to the failure of party agents.
“Back when I was still part of the Obidient movement, I
attended a closed-door meeting with Peter Obi,” he wrote.
“It was a small, selected group, shortly after the
elections, as plans were being made around the ‘All Eyes On The Judiciary’
push.
“During that meeting, he openly admitted that he knew he
lost the election, largely due to the absence of party agents across polling
units to defend the mandate.”
Okoro said the claim surprised him, prompting him to
question Obi further.
“I asked a simple question: ‘Sir, if we lost the election,
why are we in court?’” he said.
“The room instantly turned on me. You could feel the
outrage. Everyone was ready to shut me down, but he stayed quiet and never gave
an answer.”
‘PROVIDE PROOFS TO BACK YOUR CLAIMS’
Reacting to the allegation in an interview with TheCable,
Yunusa Tanko, national coordinator of the Obidient Movement, challenged Okoro
to provide proof of his claims, insisting that no such meeting ever took place.
“Can he give us proof of that? Because there was never a
time we had that particular discussion,” Tanko said.
“We have always maintained that we won the election and that
it was manipulated, based on the fact that from the beginning, the results were
not uploaded on INEC’s IReV as at when due. We all knew that.
“Instead of results being shown on the IReV in real time, we
only saw pictures of human beings.”
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