Tinubu: Malpractice in Rivers state changes nothing — Keyamo

Festus Keyamo, the spokesperson of the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has claimed the recent report by the BBC alleging malpractice in Rivers state changes nothing about the emergence of Bola Tinubu as the president-elect of Nigeria.

NewsWireNGR recalls a BBC report revealed that Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) won Rivers State by a wide margin but the Independent National Electoral Commission declared Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the state.

In a Twitter post, Keyamo said the revelation doesn’t change anything.

Obi is contesting before the Tribunal that he won the election. He also petitioned the tribunal saying that elections were rigged in Rivers State and other states where he won but another candidate was declared winner, saying he has evidence to back up his claim.

The BBC report had in a report yesterday It showed massive rigging in the 2023 presidential election.

Reacting, Keyamo took to Twitter and wrote: “For the avoidance of doubt, Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT of the APC beat Peter Obi of LP by a margin of 2,693,193 votes.

“So, let me educate the unlearned fellows as to how electoral jurisprudence works so that no one deceives them: If you allege electoral malpractice in just ONE STATE and you do 100 TV documentaries on it, it cannot and will not upturn the overall result of the election in the event that when you subtract or add the result of that ONE STATE to the overall tally, the margin between both candidates will still not be obliterated.

“Whilst I am not commenting on any particular Petition pending in court now, I just want to say that the entire result of an election cannot be cancelled due to any alleged malpractice if that malpractice does not SUBSTANTIALLY affect the declared result.

“In addition, the type of evidence that may be admissible in court to prove over voting may be substantially different from what is put together to make fanciful documentaries that make the eyes of viewers pop out. So, just sit back and be entertained by documentaries.”