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PDP Chairman, Ndubisi Nwobu, exonerates Peter Obi, denounces rigging accusations
Chief Ndubisi Nwobu, chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State, has refuted allegations that he accused Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi of rigging the February 25 presidential election in Anambra.
Nwobu claims that his statement was intentionally misrepresented to divert public attention.
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In a statement distributed by the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Committee’s deputy director of media and publicity, Uloka Chibuike, Nwobu insisted that the petition filed by his party at the tribunal was against the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and not the Labour Party or Peter Obi.
The statement called the fabrication a “deliberate attempt by a few innuendos to discredit and blackmail Chief Nwobu.”
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It was confirmed that Nwobu testified as Atiku Abubakar and the PDP’s eleventh witness on June 7, 2023, highlighting INEC’s failure to comply with its election guidelines for real-time electronic transmission of polling unit results.
The statement clarified that Nwobu told the tribunal that the Labour Party won the presidential election in Anambra, and not that Obi rigged it.
He stated that the disagreement was with INEC and not the Labour Party.
The PDP urged the public to disregard the erroneous information and cautioned online bloggers against promoting sensational headlines without conducting exhaustive research.
It vowed to present all evidence against INEC and the APC to demonstrate that the presidential mandate granted to Atiku Abubakar by the majority of Nigerians had been improperly appropriated and that the situation must be rectified in order to reclaim the mandate from the APC.
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