“When we told many of those we met that the Labour Party scored one-third of votes in only 15 of the 36 states, they were shocked.”
The post-election conversations have been a putrid salad of prejudices, recriminations, and elevated provincialism.
“It’s also not impossible that those urging him to leave the country may have planted the impersonators ostensibly to tar the Eagle’s immaculate appearance.”
“The petitioners’ paragraph 146 in support of ground four on non-qualification is vague, bare and meaningless as having the constitutional threshold is not part of the requirement to contest
“Obi came far behind with 25 per cent in 15 states. This means Obi, who was wrongly adjudged as a frontrunner in the election, was virtually unknown and unpopular in 22 states.”
“The position of the law is clear that anybody who is aggrieved over election results should go to court.”
“If it is fake, it means it never took place. But if it is doctored, it means there was that conversation, but it was manipulated. Obi needs to come out and make clarification.”
Mr Obi’s statement comes days after Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka derided his supporters as intolerant “fascists.”
Mr Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate in the February 25 elections, made this known in his Easter celebration message to the Christian community around the world.
