Both Atiku and Obi rejected the election result and vowed to challenge the result in court. 
The People's Democratic Party (PDP) has called for the resignation, arrest and investigation of Professor Mahmoud Yakub, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), for manipulating the outcome of the February 25 presidential election.
In a fierce battle, the PDP's presidential candidate and former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, was defeated by his Bola Tinubu of the ruling party's All Progressives Congress (APC). Atiku finished second in the race with 6,984,520 votes, while Tinubu won 12 of Nigeria's 36 states and secured substantial votes in several others to take the highest number of votes - 8,794,726.
Peter Obi, Labor Party (LP) candidate Peter Obi, mobilized young voters in less than a year, what some described as unprecedented, 6,101,533 I finished the race with a vote.
Both Atiku and Obi rejected the election results and vowed to challenge the results in court.
At a press conference in Abuja on Friday, PDP national spokesman Debo Ologunagba said the election results were distorted because the commission deliberately refused to transmit the results of electoral units in accordance with the electoral law. claimed.
He stressed that the INEC president's resignation was the first step in restoring confidence in the electoral bodies.
Ologunagba also asked the Chief of Police, his Usman Alkali Baba, the Department of State (DSS) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (INEC) to launch an investigation against the INEC chairman.
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