{"id":95580,"date":"2023-09-14T11:05:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T10:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2023-polls-you-didnt-even-come-second-soyinka-to-peter-obi"},"modified":"2023-09-14T13:39:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T12:39:41","slug":"2023-polls-you-didnt-even-come-second-soyinka-to-peter-obi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-polls-you-didnt-even-come-second-soyinka-to-peter-obi","title":{"rendered":"2023 polls: You didn\u2019t even come second \u2013 Soyinka to Peter Obi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Literary icon, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has categorically said that Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, did not win the 2023 presidential election as he is claiming.<\/p>\n<p>According to Soyinka, Obi only came third in the election, not even second.<\/p>\n<p>The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, PEPT, on Wednesday, upheld the victory of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, but his challengers have vowed to proceed to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu\u2019s victory was challenged by Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who came second in the election, and third-placed Peter Obi of the Labour Party.<\/p>\n<p>While Peter Obi, a former Governor of Anambra State is claiming to have won the polls, Soyinka said the former governor did not even finish second.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the recent election, two things happened first of all. One party took over the Labour movement which is one of my favourite movements also,\u201d he said in a viral interview on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen it became a regional party&#8230; whereas it was a marvellous bridge into the established two camps. Peter Obi achieved something remarkable there that he broke that mold. Yes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, however, he did not win that election. I was in a monitoring organisation. I can say categorically that Peter Obi\u2019s party came third not even second and the leadership knew it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut they want to do what we call in Yoruba \u2018gbajue\u2019, that is force of lies&#8230;\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re going to send some of the hardliners, crowds, young people to the streets to demonstrate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m always ready to be part of such demonstrations but only on the banner of truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Literary icon, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has categorically said that Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, did not win the 2023 presidential election as he is claiming. According to Soyinka, Obi only came third in the election, not even second. The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, PEPT, on Wednesday, upheld the victory of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":95579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[8911,1570,2140,254,222,2074],"class_list":["post-95580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-2023-polls","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria","tag-peter-obi","tag-soyinka"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2023 polls: You didn\u2019t even come second \u2013 Soyinka to Peter Obi - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Literary icon, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has categorically said that Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, did not win the 2023 p ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-polls-you-didnt-even-come-second-soyinka-to-peter-obi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2023 polls: You didn\u2019t even come second \u2013 Soyinka to Peter Obi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Literary icon, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has categorically said that Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, did not win the 2023 p ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-polls-you-didnt-even-come-second-soyinka-to-peter-obi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-09-14T10:05:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-09-14T12:39:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/09\/sm_1694678771.818997.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-polls-you-didnt-even-come-second-soyinka-to-peter-obi#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-polls-you-didnt-even-come-second-soyinka-to-peter-obi\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"2023 polls: You didn\u2019t even come second \u2013 Soyinka to Peter Obi\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-09-14T10:05:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-09-14T12:39:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-polls-you-didnt-even-come-second-soyinka-to-peter-obi\"},\"wordCount\":288,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-polls-you-didnt-even-come-second-soyinka-to-peter-obi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/09\/sm_1694678771.818997.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"2023 polls\",\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Nigeria\",\"Peter Obi\",\"Soyinka\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-polls-you-didnt-even-come-second-soyinka-to-peter-obi#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-polls-you-didnt-even-come-second-soyinka-to-peter-obi\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-polls-you-didnt-even-come-second-soyinka-to-peter-obi\",\"name\":\"2023 polls: You didn\u2019t even come second \u2013 Soyinka to Peter Obi - 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