The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and his Labour Party (LP) counterpart, Peter Obi, said they will seek redress in court, reports Daily Trust.
They all spoke after the declaration of Tinubu as president-elect on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The PDP described Tinubu’s victory as “a grave injustice which will not stand.”
Senator Dino Melaye, spokesman and Director Public Affairs of the PDP Presidential Campaign Committee, in a terse statement on Wednesday evening, said there will be no going back on the battle to retrieve the mandate which he called a “stolen one.”
Melaye said: “A clarion call on all Atiku’s supporters all over the world not to be perturbed. Weeping may tarry till night but joy cometh in the morning.
“This grave injustice shall not stand. The battle to retrieve our stolen mandate is a battle of no retreat, no surrender. We shall overcome,” he said.
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We’ll contest defeat through legal means – Obi
Obi, on the other hand, has said he would contest Tinubu’s victory through legal and peaceful means.
He said this on Wednesday in Abuja at a press conference addressed by his running mate, Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed.
“On behalf of our presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, I address you all and indeed all Nigerians on the current situation in the country following the announcement of the purported result of the presidential election held on Saturday, February 25th 2023.
“Please be assured of our determination to fight the injustice that has been perpetrated on Nigerians through all legal and peaceful means. It is our position that the purported result did not meet the minimum criteria of a transparent, free and fair election,” Baba-Ahmed said.
He, however, thanked all Nigerians for their belief in them and for coming out en masse to vote for the Labour Party and for the cause they believed in, which he said was the birth of a new Nigeria.
Meanwhile, the President-elect assured Nigerians that his administration would bring smiles to the faces of all Nigerians, irrespective of their political affiliations.
Tinubu gave the pledge on Wednesday morning in his acceptance speech, delivered at the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council secretariat in Abuja.