Obi: If you are saying you have the majority of votes counted, then tell us what you scored–Arabambi

A faction of the Labour Party (LP) led by Alhaji Lamidi Apapa has responded to the recent judgment by the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal regarding the 2023 presidential election.

According to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the former Governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), emerged as the winner of the presidential election, defeating strong contenders including Peter Obi of the Labour Party and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Both Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar had challenged Tinubu’s victory in the Presidential Election Tribunal in Abuja, but their petitions were struck out by the court.

In an exclusive interview reported by The Punch paper, the faction’s spokesman, Abayomi Arabambi, expressed his perspective on the outcome. Arabambi suggested that the inability to provide the actual vote tally in line with the law contributed to the tribunal’s decision to demand Peter Obi’s actual score. He implied that if the LP had been able to present polling unit results to prove their case, the outcome might have been different. Arabambi also mentioned that the payment of stipends to all their agents might have prevented these issues.

He said, “If Peter Obi were claiming you have the majority of votes counted, what did you score? They couldn’t tabulate or present it in line with the extant law of the land. That was what provoked the judges to even demand Obi’s actual score. Had it been they had the polling unit results, they could have gone ahead with the presentation to prove that LP had certain votes in some states. In this case, we know INEC cannot alter your Form EC8 except theirs. But had it been we paid all our agents, we wouldn’t have this problem.”

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