The Labour Party (LP) has refused to concede defeat following the announcement of Bola Tinubu, of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner of the February 25 presidential election, and has vowed to reclaim its mandate.
Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, the LP’s vice-presidential candidate Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, said democracy belonged to the people who can practice it.
“As far as we’re concerned, we won this. They refused to upload results, they refused to refer to IReV just for them to defeat us.
“It took a serving government illegality and constitutional breach to defeat Peter Obi and my humble self. I tell you we’re winners.
“We went into the election as Labour Party, we won the election as Labour Party, we are going to claim our mandate as Labour Party and we shall rescue Nigeria as Labour Party,” he said.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Mahmood Yakubu, presented Tinubu and his vice Kashim Shettima, with certificates of return of Nigeria’s new President-Elect and Vice-President-Elect respectively during a ceremony in Abuja.
Tinubu, a former Lagos State governor secured 8,794,726 votes to defeat Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) who finished second with 6,984,520 votes and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) who finished third with 6,101,533 votes.
Obi is also expected to brief the press on Wednesday.