Sowore condemns presidential election results, says it does not meet standards of free and fair election

Omoyele Sowore, the African Action Congress’ candidate for president in the recently held presidential election, has voiced his displeasure with the election results revealed by the Independent National Electoral Commission on Wednesday.

On Wednesday, the All Progressives Congress’ Bola Tinubu was proclaimed the victor of the presidential election held on February 25.

Tinubu won with a total of 8,794,726 votes, while Sowore received 14, 608 votes.

The results announced by the top electoral authority did not “reflect the will of the people,” according to Sowore’s statement.

He also bemoaned the INEC’s failure to electronically upload the results to its webpage.

Sowore said, “The 2023 presidential election did not meet any legal requirements of what should be called a free, fair and credible election.

“This particular election, by their own standard, did not meet any of the legal requirements that say every election result must be scanned and uploaded to the INEC server. But there is nothing new about it, before this election, I had said INEC wasn’t ready for this election.

“We categorically condemn the election that was held on the 25th of February as a fraudulent election that didn’t meet the standard of what should be called a free, fair and credible election.”

He added, “There is nothing surprising about it. We knew that these criminals in our system have no interest in organising a free and fair election. What they did was a selection as they usually do, they have just given you the candidate of the choice of the criminal political elite in Nigeria.

“Any figures, either for me or against me or them or against them that you see during this election were concocted and manufactured fraudulently.”