President Bola Tinubu on Friday issued a challenge to the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, challenging him to present concrete proof to substantiate his persistent claims of winning that year’s presidential election.
The president made his remarks through the Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
According to Council spokesman Dele Alake, his response came after a recent BBC interview in which Obi claimed victory in the 2023 election while at the same time conceding that he had no evidence to support that claim.
Reacting to Obi’s claim on the BBC where he said, “I won the last election. There’s no evidence, but I won the election. Everything is not based on evidence”, the APC campaign council described the statement as a “troubling display of delusion” and a brazen disregard for facts and the democratic process.
Alake challenged the reasoning behind claiming a political win without supporting it with verifiable records or data, pressing Obi to provide real evidence instead of depending on unproven speculation.
“For a candidate who placed a distant third in the presidential poll to persistently insist he won — without evidence and contrary to all official records reflects a deep and troubling disconnection from reality and absolute disregard for facts and truth,” Alake asserted.
He ridiculed where Obi’s electoral claims came from, asking, “Where is Obi sourcing his facts? Might it be from his notorious adviser at Upper Iweka Junction, or from some ObIdient typing away on a laptop for the next post from California or Dallas?”
Reaffirming that Tinubu’s presidency is legitimate, the APC campaign council insisted that the result of the 2023 election is a matter already settled in legal and constitutional terms.
The council emphasized that President Tinubu’s win was certified by the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC and later upheld by both the Presidential Election Petition Court and the Supreme Court.
Alake observed that even as Obi keeps up his “posturing and shenanigans,” President Tinubu stays focused on carrying out his executive mandate through economic, educational, and infrastructural reforms nationwide.
The campaign council went on to urge Obi to keep a previous promise to withdraw from the 2027 presidential race should liabilities be proven against his administration in Anambra State.
The council claimed that official financial records from the state have already confirmed those liabilities and pressed Obi to stand by his word and quit the race.
