The Head, Media and Communications of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Diran Onifade, speaks with AYOOLA OLASUPO about the issues arising from the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections

Your party disagreed with the declaration of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the presidential election, are you confident that decision could still be overturned, given the upset people say it might cause?

Yes, that is why the law says that if you have genuine reasons to believe that you have been cheated in an election, you should go to the tribunal. That is the law and we are law-abiding people. You know we have a case so we will argue the case before the judges and we are very optimistic that they will see reasons with us because we think we have been cheated. Justice is a condition for peace and injustice is a quick condition for the lack of peace. Justice cannot lead to the breakdown of peace in fact it is injustice that can lead to that.

The APC has maintained that it won the election, PDP has said the same and LP is also claiming victory, what makes you think it will go your way?

INEC did not follow its rules, and every political party has an idea of what is called invalid election because of the way INEC organised it. Every political party has the results. The scores at the polling units were not what were used to declare the winner. It was something else. So, we are confident of victory, going by the real results from the election.

During the collation of results by INEC, the spokesperson for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Ndi Kato, raised the alarm over manipulation of results and that some persons were rewriting the results, what did you witness?

We all saw it. The results that were submitted to the situation room by the polling agents of each political party were different from what INEC used. What was eventually used to collate in many cases were different. We have been seeing on the Internet copies of results that were supposedly uploaded and how the results were tampered with. The exercise was okay at the level of voting but the collation was something else. That was because of the gaps INEC left. That election was a mess.

In the history of Nigeria, the Supreme Court has never nullified the election of a president, no matter how flawed the election was. What makes you think that would change this time round?

There is always a first time. Maybe they never had reasons to do so in the past but there is always a first time. I mean it was the first time when Peter Obi was impeached as governor, he went back to court and fought his impeachment when he was cheated and after three years the court ruled in his favour. So, there is always a first time. What happened in this election was too glaring. The whole world saw it. The level of observation was unprecedented. There is a plethora of evidence. This was daylight robbery. They were robbing in the presence of everybody because the world was seeing it.

Some people have claimed that Mr Peter Obi could not have won the election because he doesn’t have as much support in the North as he does in the South, what do you make of that argument?

This was their permutation during the election, and they will be surprised. They were saying that we didn’t have structure and that there were just four people tweeting in a room. At the end of the day, in spite of all the shenanigans, the difference between him and the people they declared as winner of the election was just two million votes. They have been saying that he (Peter Obi) does not have structure but how does somebody who does not have structure come that close with APC and PDP in a national election? We came to Lagos and beat the godfather of Lagos politics. They couldn’t even tamper with that. Well, what is the structure anyway? A structure of criminality they have put together to perpetrate themselves in power to permanently superintend over our common wealth and to permanently keep to themselves the resources that belong to over 200 million people. We won the election and we will present the evidence before the court. Peter Obi shook Nigeria without structure.

burp18:
And the delusions continue. 😁

CXLVII:
Fiction!

Y’all should stop day dreaming!

Somethings are impossible on Earth!

“Nothing is impossible” is a statement used to deceive the foolish!

oyebanji44:


Imagine. .some losers believe the only way to win an election is by proving themselves in court

ChEkWaSIyKe:


There is always a first time for everything. So everything is possible get that into your brain.

dominique:
North dey far, ask a middle-aged or elderly person here in the Southwest with no access to the internet about Peter Obi and watch reply you with a blank stare. Obi was highly popular amongst the internet crowd some of whom are in the diaspora and didn't come home to vote. The internet crowd did very well for him but unfortunately a large percentage of Nigeria's voting population are not on the internet.

yinkus6750:
Obi can't compare himself with Kwakwanso, Atiku or BAT, in terms of followership in the north.
His followership will be few elite youths who are in the minority.

yinkus6750:
Obi can't compare himself with Kwakwanso, Atiku or BAT, in terms of followership in the north.
His followership will be few elite youths who are in the minority.

Guyman01:

Tinubu got 8m votes nationwide even with all the thuggery and change in results sheets, what happened to the Buhari 12m votes in the North if you think he is popular here?

Over here in Sokoto many people are questioning how INEC gave 7000 votes to Obi, only the Igbo voters at Old Airport area who came out enmasse for the first time to vote surpassed that number not to mention other tribes and educated Sokoto indigenes who voted for him.
Even his fellow Catholics in Sokoto Diocese where Bishop Hassan Kukah presides will give him more than 7000 votes.

You needed to see the kinds of parody about Tinubu in the North where he is seen as physically weak to do the job

dominique:
North dey far, ask a middle-aged or elderly person here in the Southwest with no access to the internet about Peter Obi and watch reply you with a blank stare.

dominique:
North dey far, ask a middle-aged or elderly person here in the Southwest with no access to the internet about Peter Obi and watch reply you with a blank stare. Obi was highly popular amongst the internet crowd some of whom are in the diaspora and didn't come home to vote. The internet crowd did very well for him but unfortunately a large percentage of Nigeria's voting population are not on the internet.

peekspot:


https://punchng.com/shock-awaits-those-challenging-obis-popularity-in-the-north-spokesman/

dominique:
North dey far, ask a middle-aged or elderly person here in the Southwest with no access to the internet about Peter Obi and watch reply you with a blank stare. Obi was highly popular amongst the internet crowd some of whom are in the diaspora and didn't come home to vote. The internet crowd did very well for him but unfortunately a large percentage of Nigeria's voting population are not on the internet.

NaijaSumigan:
INEC Chairman should be arrested. He failed woefully. The man is terrible