I Won 2023 Presidential Election But The System Decided Otherwise — Peter Obi

By Akanni Toba

A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Peter Obi, has insisted that he won the 2023 presidential election but insinuated that the powers that be altered the results in favour of their preferred candidate, saying ” the system decided otherwise and they know it”.

Obi spoke on Saturday on the Naija Unfiltered podcast hinting at the fact that he was the dark horse of the election.

“I can show you today, as far as I’m concerned, I have run election for the office of the President of Nigeria and won. But the system decided otherwise and they know it,” he said.

He repeated the assertion for emphasis, stating: “And we won. I can show you today as far as I’m concerned. I have run election for the office of the President of Nigeria and won. But the system decided otherwise and they know it.”

Obi’s opinion is just a rehash of his long-held stance that he won the 2023 election despite the verdict of the Supreme Court delivered on October 26, 2023 which dismissed the his appeal and unanimously affirmed the election of President Bola Tinubu.

The former Anambra governor ran for the 2023 presidential election on the platform of the Labour Party (LP) and polled six million votes, coming third behind the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar.