Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the recent election, has voiced his dissatisfaction with the results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday. INEC declared Bola Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, as the winner of the February 25 presidential poll, with Tinubu receiving a total of 8,794,726 votes, while Sowore garnered only 14,608 votes.
In his statement, Sowore argued that the results released by INEC did not “reflect the will of the people.” He criticized the commission for failing to transmit the election results electronically to its portal, stating, “The 2023 presidential election did not meet any legal requirements of what should be called a free, fair, and credible election.” He emphasized that the election did not adhere to the legal standards that mandate every election result be scanned and uploaded to the INEC server. Sowore had previously expressed concerns about INEC’s preparedness for the election, asserting, “We categorically condemn the election that was held on the 25th of February as a fraudulent election that didn’t meet the standard of what should be called a free, fair, and credible election.”
Sowore further remarked, “There is nothing surprising about it. We knew that these criminals in our system have no interest in organizing a free and fair election. What they did was a selection as they usually do; they have just given you the candidate of the choice of the criminal political elite in Nigeria.” He concluded by stating that any figures, whether in favor of him or against him, were “concocted and manufactured fraudulently.”
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