The Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress has challenged the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi to meet the ruling party in court if he was aggrieved.
Onanuga said the APC saluted the decision, saying it was surely better than calling supporters to the streets and instigating social unrest. According to him, That Labour Party and Mr. Obi surprised bookmakers by winning in Lagos State, Nasarawa, Plateau, Delta and Edo where there are sitting governors of either the All Progressives Congress or the Peoples Democratic Party. Those governors have entrenched political machinery. That Obi won attests to the credibility of the election process. In those states, most of the sitting governors contested elections to go to the Senate and lost to little known candidates of the Labour Party.
Onanuga said: “We need to forewarn Mr. Obi, that when he gets to court he should be prepared to tell the world how his party won over 90% of votes in his region of South East while other parties got almost nothing. We have evidence of voters suppression, intimidation and harassment in the South East, especially of those who came out to vote for our party.
He said this was because he had no path to winning a national election in a multi-ethnic and multi-religious society like Nigeria where a candidate running in a national election must appeal to the cross-section of our pluralistic society.
Yes, the same party that assembled the Machinery you use to practice election malpractices and suppression is the one that assembled the Judges on your Courts. Pray that you will not be tried in Courts of the Nigerian Youths. That may earn you a sit at ICC Defendants’ bench.