After Saturday’s elections and the subsequent declaration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for president, as the winner of the poll by INEC, Datti Baba-Ahmed, the vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), called for calm and urged supporters to support the party in the upcoming governorship and house of assembly elections.
Hours after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced that Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had won the election on Saturday, he made this statement during a news conference in Abuja on Wednesday.
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The LP leader stated that his principal will speak when it is appropriate, despite the fact that the party has rejected the polls and that its backers believe the process was tainted. He promised their followers that he would file a lawsuit.
Baba-Ahmed questions how the outcomes of the presidential and National Assembly elections were tallied in the absence of electronic transmission, and he calls on the courts to demonstrate their objectivity when the matter is heard in court.
He insisted that no amount of pressure would persuade the Labour Party or its representatives to preach against peace and said that they still had hope for Nigeria despite the election’s results. He denied rumours that his party might join forces with the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The party, he stressed, is fighting only for its mandate.
He claims that the LP is certain of a successful outcome on March 11 when the President Muhammadu Buhari government is held accountable for a free and credible election.
