“Nigerians accepting rigged election is not God’s will” – Peter Obi

Mr. Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s nominee for president, has pleaded with Nigerians not to accept the results of a rigged election as God’s will.

He claimed that over the years, Nigerians had a problem with embracing what was wrong and inappropriate as God’s intention for the nation.

Obi gave his speech on the same day that members of the Labour Party’s legal team met with INEC authorities to check election-related materials for the February 25 presidential election.

In the midst of this, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, promised the Labour Party LP’s legal team that the commission was prepared to give them any papers they needed to support their case before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.

Obi responded to certain Nigerians’ opinion that the results of the presidential election on February 25, 2023, should be viewed and accepted as God’s will when he appeared as a guest on Arise Television Morning Show interview program yesterday.

The LP candidate emphasized that the Obedient Movement was working to change bad things in the country since God doesn’t wish bad things for His people.

He said; “The problem of Nigeria is accepting what is unacceptable. That’s not God’s wish. God’s wish is when you do the right thing. Is it God’s wish that we remain poor as a country, despite it’s abundant blessings on us?”

Obi claimed that Nigeria had continued to slide morally into decency. Nigerians kept embracing wrongdoing and involving God in it.

Yet, he pointed out that the Obidient Movement, which he represented, was working to alter the status quo and establish an egalitarian society.

The former governor of Anambra State expressed his disappointment that, 63 years after being a nation, Nigeria was still unable to hold elections that passed the bar for minimum acceptable standards.

Given that the Election Law of 2022 was passed to guarantee free, fair, and credible elections, he termed the February 25 presidential election as the worst in Nigeria’s history.

While Obi said he was pursuing his mandate by lawful and nonviolent ways, he found it discouraging that the Independent National Election Commission, or INEC, a public organization supported by tax dollars, was treating the rule of law lightly.

In addition, he clarified that there was nothing personal behind his choice to oppose the past election’s abuse of the system and that he had no intention of changing his mind until the right thing had been done.

He claimed that since independence, Nigeria has been struggling because people had been doing and accepting the wrong things.