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BREAKING: Obidient Protesters rock Asaba over election results

The vicinity in Asaba, the Delta State capital is experience a protest over the Saturday, February 25 presidential election results.

In quite a number of videos shared on social media, the youths of Asaba combined their resources together to stage a protest on Tuesday.

As can be seen in the videos, they could be heard chanting the name of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi.

The voice behind the video said, “This is happening live in Asaba now. Obi must be the president of Nigeria whether they like it or not. Our votes now.”

The Peter Obi Grassroots Mobilisation captioned the video, “The Asaba youths are protesting right now demanding that INEC should do the right (thing) and stop the ongoing rigging.”

Another tweep, Charles, who posted another video from the protest wrote, “Peaceful protest ongoing in Asaba. We will take this country back from them by God’s grace.”

 

 

Meanwhile, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has been declared the winner of the February 25 presidential election in Cross River State.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the final results, which show that Obi polled a total of 179,917 votes to beat his rival, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who secured 130,520 votes.

Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) came third in the polls with 95,425 votes, while Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) polled 1,644 votes.

In a separate announcement, INEC declared Bola Tinubu the winner of the presidential election in Benue State. Tinubu polled 310,468 votes to beat runner-up Peter Obi of the Labour Party, who secured 308,372 votes. Atiku Abubakar of the PDP came third with 130,081 votes, while Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP came fourth with 4,740 votes.

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