Keyamo Mocks ‘Obidients’ Over Closure Of Alternative Result Collation Portal

Supporters of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, popularly known as Obidients, have been mocked over the independent collation of the just-concluded presidential results.

Naija News learned that Obidients had mobilized themselves to independently collate results and show Nigerians that the LP flagbearer won the February 25 presidential election.

The Obi supporters, led by one Mark Essien, with the username @markessien on Twitter had claimed that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and Election Result Viewing Portal (IReV) deployed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were not utilized and true election results from different polling units across the country were not what was uploaded on the portal.

According to The Punch, collating results on an independent IReV, with the help of other Obidients, the first set of results shared by Essien showed that Obi was in the clear lead, a development that further justified the claim that their candidate was allegedly rigged out.

Trouble however started hours later after the collation showed that Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) polled more votes than Obi and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) combined and was in the lead against expectation.

With the development, some Obidents turned on Essien and accused him of allegedly working for the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, and not for Obi’s cause.

However, the independent IReV portal’s results were later blocked from public view, a development that sparks reactions from Twitter users.

Reacting to the development via his Twitter account on Friday, the Chief Spokesman for the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, mocked Obi supporters over the outcome of the collation of the presidential election results.

He wrote: “The Labour Party cry babies who earlier claimed Obi won were computing uploaded results & when they saw that ⁦@officialABAT⁩ was leading with many of his strongholds not yet in, they quickly discontinued & said they will show the results at the end. TALK ABOUT LIVING A LIE!”

The Labour Party cry babies who earlier claimed Obi won were computing uploaded results & when they saw that ⁦@officialABAT⁩ was leading with many of his strongholds not yet in, they quickly discontinued & said they will show the results at the end. TALK ABOUT LIVING A LIE! pic.twitter.com/0nQUVjofjq

— Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo) March 10, 2023