Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie introduces Peter Obi as the winner of the 2023 Presidential election (video)

Says the one who raised the “the danger of a single story”.
This whole “Peter Obi won the election” is a perfect example of the danger of a single story. They claimed he won but couldn’t prove it at the tribunal when they were presented with the opportunity to. There were over 170K polling units in that election, Peter Obi couldn’t present a single party agent to deny that the result from his/her polling unit, ward or local government didn’t match the copy he was given or INEC’s result sheet(EC8), rather, LP displayed lazy tactics by bringing some Amazon Web Service lady who was not at the tribunal on AWS official capacity but on her own presumed convictions, claiming that AWS server was not down on the day of election. INEC didn’t say AWS server was down, but INEC server was shut down due to cyber-attacks and other technical issues. Put in other words, that suspected that their server was compromised, a claim that any court of law anywhere in the world can consider valid. In a simple analogy, Arik Air website could be down while Wakanow can still display info of many other airlines. They also brought a professor of mathematics, who did some numbers and explanations with no correlation to the election’s results or how LP won, etc. How did these witnesses and their points relevant to Peter Obi’s claim that he won? They printed and tendered blurry results of polling units that were uploaded on IREV, and the tribunal asked if the copies of the results presented to labour party agents at the respective polling units were also blurry, their answer was, “no”. How on earth does any of these claims even make any sense to them or their lawyers? In the 2007 election, Mimiko of labour party contested the governorship election against the incumbent Agagu of PDP. Obasanjo had informed the INEC chairman that Agagu must declared the winner irrespective of the election’s outcome. It took the INEC 5 days to announce the winner and it was done in Abuja due to the resistance from many of the voters in the state. Mind you, declaring the winner of a state election in Abuja is unconstitutional. Mimiko, knowing that he won the election, calmed his supporters, and promised to go to court to reclaim his mandate. At the tribunal, Mimiko’s lawyers led by Wole Olanipekun (SAN), presented the results they gathered from labour party agents across the state and told the tribunal that he won the election by 63% of the total votes casted. Among Mimiko’s witnesses were his party agents from all the polling unit in Ondo state who were also at the tribunal with their copies of the results by INEC and equally signed by all their party agents. Mimiko’s claims were cross-examined, and he was declared the winner of the election. That’s how cases are won at the tribunal, not by lying to your followers, playing emotional politics and pretense. The fact that the result was not transmitted to IREV doesn’t invalidate the result in Form EC8, which every party agent was given a copy and that’s what the electoral law recognizes, though INEC promised to transmit result through IREV.

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