It’s Not God’s Will For Nigerians To Accept Rigged Election, Says Obi
Afimag.com –
The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Gregory Obi, has asked Nigerians not to accept the outcome of the presidential election, saying that it is not God’s will.
Obi gave the remark on March 14, 2023, while addressing the party’s legal team assigned to inspect materials used for the February 25 presidential polls.
The LP candidate noted that God doesn’t desire ominous things for his people, and that the wrong things going on in the country are what the ‘Obidient Movement’ intended to transform.
“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?”
Describing the February 25 presidential election as the worst in Nigeria’s history, Obi said the Electoral Law of 2022 was enacted to nourish free, fair and credible elections, adding that accepting the wrong thing is what had kept Nigeria down since independence.
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“It is a world of sadness that 63 years after Nigeria’s independence, we cannot conduct a simple election despite all the promises. In India, which is the world’s biggest democracy with over 900 million registered voters, in their last election, 67 per cent participated, which is over 600 million.
“That is 25 times our size. My appeal to Nigerians is to remain calm and prayerful. We have no other country except Nigeria. And we will go through all legal means to get back to Nigeria. Like I told people, I am not challenging who they declared or the outcome. I am challenging the process at which they arrived at their declaration. And unless we do that, we are not going to stop the rascality we witnessed in that election.
“The process through which people come into office is far more important than what they do thereafter. I will also say I contested the election and I didn’t contest the election for anybody to win. The declared winner did not win. He may have been declared by whatever means, but to win, is to win the people.
“If democracy means the government of the people, by the people and for the people, that means if you must win, you must win the people. If you don’t win the people, you have not won. Because Nigeria’s politics has been largely transactional when we were starting this, people didn’t believe what we were about to do.
“The consequence is that we didn’t have candidates for the governorship in states because being a transitional thing, people like being where things are being shared. So, nobody believed that a party without a local government councillor, chairman, etc, can come up become something.
“So we didn’t have candidates in most places. In a few places, we have two first-class candidates and I support them and I asked the Obidient family to support them because they will do good work,” he said.
