Presidential Election Worst in Nigeria's Recent History - Peter Obi PremiumTimesng: Nigeria
"We have seen probably what I consider the worst election in our recent history because of the Electoral law of 2022 which gave so much hope and the huge expenditure we put into technology. Do you know what it means to spend over $1bn? So, there was so much that was promised and then we went back to what it used to be. For me, that is very devastating," Mr Obi said.
"Look at how they downgraded us globally all over the newspaper. Starting from the Financial Times to the Economists to Chatham House to institutions that don't make comments to start making comments bringing us so low in the committee of nations. Even one of the rating agencies downgrades our ratings."
Mr Tinubu defeated 17 other candidates who took part in the election. He scored a total of 8,794,726 popular votes, while Atiku Abubakar of the PDP came second in the election with 6,984,520 votes and Mr Obi of the LP third with a total of 6,101,533 votes. He reiterated that"everybody paid so much emphasis on the law and the technology," describing the failures of the exercise as"when you promise so much and don't even meet the minimum."
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