‘Your party stole our mandate’ – Labour Party replies Buhari after he said the opposition parties lost 2023 election due to overconfidence, swipes INEC

The Nigeria Labour Party, LP has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s claim of opposition parties losing the 2023 presidential election due to over confidence, complacency and bad tactics, freshreporters reports.

Reacting to the claim, Labour Party who knocked Buhari’s statement shared a press release by its acting National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh. The party said the President’s statement was another desperate attempt by the ruling party to seek validation for an alleged electoral fraud which it now celebrates as victory.

Labour Party also claimed that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu didn’t win the just concluded poll because the presidential election was allegedly “manipulated and rigged beyond comprehension.”

The oppostion party which insisted that they won the election, accused the ruling All Progressive congress, APC of stealing its victory.

 The statement reads;

“We want to point it out clearly to President Muhammadu Buhari that his position on the outcome of the said election was untrue, and it is not a true reflection of what played out during the election.

“There are several reasons why opposition political parties lost the 2023 election; the first is that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC snubbed the electoral act wherein it failed to upload the result from the polling unit in real time as promised and in disregard to the laws guiding the election. The INEC by so doing, created room for that election to be rigged.

“Again, the current APC president elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu didn’t win the election, because the said election, particularly, the presidential election was manipulated and rigged beyond comprehension.

“So, political parties didn’t loose election because of over confidence or complacency as proffered by Mr. President, APC in collaboration with the various government agencies simply rigged the election and rigged themselves into power.

“Let me remind Mr. President of the magnitude of violence, ballot snuffing, snatching and manipulations of result from the collation centres using security agencies, which included police, army amongst others as well as thugs to manipulate elections in favour of the ruling party.

“Recently, we saw the show of shame that took place in Adamawa. What played out in Adamawa was a microcosym of what played out” the statement reads in part