2023: No Agent Submitted His Polling Unit Result To Peter Obi, We Owed Them N10,000 Each' -Arabambi

Following the recent decision of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal that upheld Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s victory in the presidential election, a faction of the Labour Party led by Lamidi Apapa has issued a statement. Tinubu emerged as the president by defeating several prominent candidates, including Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, and Peter Obi of the Labour Party. Peter Obi and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar had challenged Tinubu’s victory in the Presidential Election Tribunal in Abuja, but their petitions were dismissed by the court.

Abayomi Arabambi, the faction’s spokesperson, spoke with Punch paper and explained that many of the polling unit agents had taken the result sheets with them because the party had not fulfilled its promise to pay them N10,000. Arabambi emphasized that initially, none of the agents received any payment, and this issue had been raised before the election but remained unresolved. He stated that out of over 190,000 polling units, they only claimed to have agents in more than 130,000, and none of his agents received payment. Arabambi further highlighted that the owed stipend of N10,000 per agent remained unpaid, and none of the claimed 130,000 agents had submitted their polling unit results to Peter Obi.

He mentioned, “When the party failed to provide the agents with the promised stipend of N10,000, the bulk of the agents fled with the polling unit result sheets. I recalled warning Nigerians that because no (polling) agent was paid, this may have an impact on us after the election. My agents weren’t compensated at all. Only 130,000 of the more than 190,000 voting places where we had agents were indicated to INEC. Nothing else was uploaded after that. No agent submitted his voting unit results to Peter Obi out of the 130,000 we had. We owed each of them N10,000.”

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