KENNETH OKONKWO: THE 2023 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION’S CREDIBILITY WILL BE RUINED FOREVER.

Kenneth Okonkwo, the spokesperson for the Labour Party (LP) presidential campaign committee, argued that the Supreme Court’s ruling on the 2023 presidential election merely granted President Bola Tinubu’s government legitimacy rather than democracy.

He claims that although democracy gets its authority from the people, the Tinubu presidency is not a people’s government.

Speaking on Friday in an appearance on Arise TV, Okonkwo responded to the Supreme Court’s ruling affirming President Tinubu’s victory at the polls and in the tribunal. He stated that the judges’ decision in favor of Tinubu was based solely on the results provided by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), as they had no other evidence to support their positions.

He charged that Nigerians were being forced to accept the results of the 2023 presidential election that INEC had “manufactured.”

Okonkwo went on to question how the petitioners could have supported their claims of improper voting with polling unit results when INEC itself was unable to comply with the law and upload results electronically to the portal in spite of significant resource allocation for that purpose.

The leader of the LP went on to say that the Supreme Court’s decision had ruined his personal faith in the 2023 election and that the election’s credibility will be permanently damaged.