NIGERIANS ARE BEING INCITED BY PETER OBI AFTER TINUBU'S VICTORY - APC

The presidential candidate for the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has been charged with making provocative remarks by the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council.

The ruling party criticized the former governor of Anambra for continuously denouncing Bola Tinubu's election as president in a statement released on Friday.

Director of Media and Publicity for APC PCC Bayo Onanuga addressed some remarks made by Obi during recent interviews on television networks.

"The defeated Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi still goes around inflaming passions," the spokesperson noted.

Onanuga claimed that weeks after the contest was over and a winner declared, Obi had continued to circulate false information as if he were still running for the nation's highest post.

Onanuga chastised Obi for appearing on Arise TV and Channels TV during the LP flagbearer's media tour, "profoundly misleading, criminally false and inciting statements about the election that he lost woefully."

The filmmaker reported that Obi criticized the poll, calling it the worst election in modern history and comparing it to robbery at one point.

Obi, according to Onanuga, made the absurd assertion about a stolen mandate, "echoing the position of his unthinking mob of supporters, who believe that he won the election because of some sponsored polls.

"Obi came third, not even second, losing by 2.6 million votes to Sen. Bola Tinubu, APC candidate and the President-elect, despite getting outrageously padded votes from his ethnic South-East states."

According to the statement, the APC PCC viewed Obi's comments on TV as adverse to the petition he had brought and disrespectful of the court.