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Peter Obi expresses concern over purported attempts to sway FCT results in favor of APC

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The campaign team for Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s candidate for president in the election on February 25, has expressed concern about purported attempts to change the Federal Capital Territory’s first results in order to advance nefarious goals.

Oseloka Obaze, the manager of the Labour Party’s presidential campaign, subsequently advised the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, against meddling with IRev as it relates to the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.

On Saturday, he made this statement in a tweet. According to intelligence that has reached the campaign office, INEC is attempting to give in to pressure to tamper with the results of various states, including the FCT, in order to help the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, maintain its good position.

A statement from the Obi-Datti Media Office signed by its Head, Diran Onifade, quoted Obaze as saying, “According to our source, INEC is tempering with the machines used in the election to adjust FCT results to give the APC candidate, the much-needed 25%, which he did not get as per the initial INEC declaration and for which he is being challenged at the Presidential election tribunal.

“It’s not clear how the Electoral Commission can brazenly carry out such bizarre action but given the abracadabra they did to announce the APC Candidate winner by 4 a.m., there is nothing to be taken for granted.

“Mr. Obaze warns that INEC and the ruling APC may be taking the adherence to the rule of law and due process disposition of Nigerians in general and the Obidient Movement in particular for granted, but it would be courting catastrophe for them to want to pour salt into an open wound inflicted on Nigeria’s electorate.”

Obaze, a retired UN ambassador, told INEC that what they are attempting amounts to beating a dead horse and that regardless of whether the allegations were true or not, the level of public faith in them has long been diminished.

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