Result of Feb 25 presidential election not God’s wish – Obi

Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25 election, Peter Obi, has said that he will not accept the results as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the wish of God as some clerics want people to believe.

Obi stated this during an interview on Arise News TV on Monday.

Even as he affirmed his utmost respect for traditional rulers and religious leaders, the former Anambra governor disagreed with the narrative being pushed by some of them that the outcome of the poll as pronounced by INEC was God’s wish for the country.

He said, “I’m very respectful to them and I think that they should be respected for what they represent to the society. But I disagree with them.What they are actually preaching is the problem of Nigeria. The problem of Nigeria is accepting wrongdoing and accepting what is unacceptable.

“That is using God’s name in vain. That is not what God is saying. God said do not use my name in vain.

“So, what they are saying is not God’s wish, it is not God’s plan for Nigeria.

“So are they saying that the 133 million Nigerians who are poor is God’s wish? Why don’t we accept that 95 million Nigerians living in absolute poverty is God’s wish? It is God’s wish that your children are kidnapped? It is God’s wish that we have collapsed Primary Health Care making us the country with the highest infant mortality.

“That’s not what God’s will says. God’s will is that when you do the right thing then in the end it is well.”

Obi said the country has laws guiding the conduct of elections and that it is not the wish of God that they should be violated.

He said, “We have clear laws about the conduct of the election, it’s not God’s wish that we do the wrong thing. We want God’s wish to be truly God’s wish.

“Is it God’s wish that we steal or conduct the wrong election?” he queried.

Despite being previously viewed as a paperweight, Mr Obi and the Labour Party stunned their doubters.

Obi’s Labour Party pulled over six million votes, trailing Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the now President-elect Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC)