The All Progressives Congress, APC, has responded to Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 presidential election, who blamed the judiciary for his failure to win the presidency, saying cases are only won through properly presented evidence, not public opinion.
The APC responded on Monday via a statement published by its spokesperson Felix Morka, in which the party applauded Obi’s pledge that the Labour Party would play a genuine opposition role in the face of what the former Anambra State Governor dubbed the Supreme Court’s demolition of justice.
Obi, who was told by the Supreme Court a few weeks ago that he had failed to establish how he won the election, decried the ruling at a global news conference in Abuja on Monday, calling it a “hijacking” and a “abuse of people’s trust.”
He reiterated his willingness to be a constructive opponent and said that the path toward a new Nigeria had only just started.
He said that the setback in court does not diminish or erase the collective ambition of his primary followers, the obidients, to establish a virile nation in which everyone may dream and be proud.
Obi had said, “The Supreme Court exhibited a disturbing aversion to public opinion just as it abandoned its responsibility as a court of law and policy.”
But the APC disagreed, describing Obi’s reaction as grouchy and his allegation against the court groundless.
The APC said Obi did not establish his case in court, but blamed the “courts for not awarding him victory – not because he won the election, not because he proved his case in court as required by law, but because he is Peter Obi.”
The APC described Obi’s “haughty sense of entitlement,” which “seems to pervade his vitriolic attack on our institutions,” as his “greatest undoing throughout the electioneering season.”
“Taken by the mass hysteria of his vociferous netizens and fringe supporters, Obi ensconced himself in alternate reality, a parallel political universe of self delusion.
“As ‘someone who has previously benefited from the rulings of the Supreme Court on electoral matters’, Obi’s acerbic attack on the judiciary only belies his arrogance and vainness.
“When the same courts previously decided in his favour, the courts were beacons of democracy. Now that the decisions are against him, all of a sudden, the courts have betrayed democracy.
“Obi, it cannot always be about you. It must always be about our country. Cases are not won on public opinion, they are won on evidence and the law. You failed on both counts.”
Welcoming his statement that he will play a strong opposition, the APC urged Obi and his Labour Party “to do so maturely and constructively, and contribute to the important task of building a safer, stronger and more prosperous country for us all.”
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