Action Alliance aspirant claims Labour Party won 2023 election despite official results
Joseph Faduri, presidential aspirant of the Action Alliance, insisted on Arise Television's Morning Show earlier today that the Labour Party actually won the 2023 presidential election, directly contradicting INEC's declaration of Bola Tinubu as winner. Faduri stated he handed over the LP ticket to Peter Obi in 2022 and told him the party would win, declaring: 'In 2022, I was the one who handed over the ticket to run for the election under the Labour Party... And, like a joke, at the end of the day, we had Labour Party win that election.'
He also criticized INEC Chairman Joash Amupitan for not recognizing a Court of Appeal ruling that upheld Kenneth Udeze as the Action Alliance's authentic leader. Faduri explained: 'the court order that Amupitan was referring to was the court order of a High Court in Osogbo. Under our constitution, a Court of Appeal is higher than a High Court. So, if a kangaroo judgment was obtained from the High Court and the authentic leader... went to a Court of Appeal in Abuja to say, 'No, that man is not the authentic leader of the party,' and the court upheld that, then you will imagine that an INEC Chairman... should obey a court order. But instead of obeying the order of the Court of Appeal, the INEC Chairman is sticking with the old order of the High Court.'
Official results showed Tinubu (APC) with 37% of votes, Atiku Abubakar (PDP) with 29%, and Peter Obi (LP) with 25%. Such claims challenging electoral outcomes affect public trust in Nigeria's democratic processes. What evidence would convince you of the 2023 election's true outcome, and how should disputed results be resolved?