Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, and Peter Obi, the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, have said they will challenge President-elect Bola Tinubu’s victory in Saturday’s election in court.
The two spoke on Wednesday, after Tinubu was declared president-elect on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The PDP described Tinubu’s victory as “a grave injustice which will not stand.”
Senator Dino Melaye, spokesman and Director Public Affairs of the PDP Presidential Campaign Committee, said in a terse statement on Wednesday evening that there will be no retreat from the fight to reclaim the mandate, which he called “stolen.”
Melaye said: “A clarion call on all Atiku’s supporters all over the world not to be perturbed. Weeping may tarry till night but joy cometh in the morning.
“This grave injustice shall not stand. The battle to retrieve our stolen mandate is a battle of no retreat, no surrender. We shall overcome,” he said.
Obi, on the other hand, has stated that he will challenge Tinubu’s victory through legal and peaceful means.
He made the remarks during a press conference addressed by his running mate, Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed, on Wednesday in Abuja.
“On behalf of our presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, I address you all and indeed all Nigerians on the current situation in the country following the announcement of the purported result of the presidential election held on Saturday, February 25th 2023.
“Please be assured of our determination to fight the injustice that has been perpetrated on Nigerians through all legal and peaceful means. It is our position that the purported result did not meet the minimum criteria of a transparent, free and fair election,” Baba-Ahmed said.
He did, however, thank all Nigerians for their faith in them and for turning out in large numbers to vote for the Labour Party and the cause they believed in, which he described as the birth of a new Nigeria.