The Labour Party’s (LP) nominee for president in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has received the continued backing of Afenifere, a Yoruba sociocultural movement. While criticising the court’s “pronouncements that the INEC is at liberty to return to the manual collation of election results and all the primitive electoral brigandage associated,” Afenifere asserts that it is in favour of the move to appeal the PEPC verdict affirming President Bola Tinubu’s victory.
The group claimed in a statement released after a meeting at the Ogun home of its leader Chief Ayo Adebanjo on Tuesday that it will not stray from the fairness, equity, and justice principles that guided its choice to support Obi and that it “remains convinced and undeterred on the just principles with which we agreed to support Mr. Peter Obi, the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party.”
“In line with our disagreement with the judgment of the Court of Appeal on the 2023 elections, we support a further appeal to the Supreme Court in the interest of the nation.”
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“Neither is it true with our political structure that Nigeria is now a 37-state federation as the Court of Appeal erroneously pronounced.”
“No person or group of persons shall hold the reins of power except in the proven interest of a fair, equitable, inclusive and thus united Nigeria in their peaceful, prosperous and harmonious diversity.”
Recall that the court dismissed Obi’s and Atiku Abubakar’s petitions challenging the declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the presidential election, but Afenifere expressed support for the former Anambra State governor’s decision to appeal the court’s decision days after Obi and Atiku did so.
