While Peter Obi contests INEC’s results, a full list of affected states is revealed by the presidential election tribunal.

Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate, is challenging the results of the 25 February election released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) after the Saturday, February 25, election.

In a petition brought before the presidential election tribunal on Wednesday, March 22, Obi argued that the poll which produced Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was marred by electoral malpractices, voter suppression, and non-compliance with the provision of the Electoral Act in various states, Premium Times reports.

States where Obi claims these happened are as follows:

1. Rivers
2. Lagos
3. Taraba
4. Benue
5. Adamawa
6. Imo
7. Bauchi
8. Borno
9. Kaduna
10. Plateau
11. Ekiti
12. Oyo
13. Ondo
14. Taraba
15. Osun
16. Kano
17. Katsina
18. Kwara
19. Gombe
20. Yobe
21. Niger

States where voter suppression took place – Obi

States where the former Anambra governor alleged that voter suppression specifically happened are the ones listed below:

1. Borno
2. Taraba
3. Ekiti
4. Oyo
5. Ondo
6. Taraba
7. Osun
8. Kano
9. Katsina
10. Kwara
11. Gombe
12. Yobe
13. Niger

Obi alleged that in the above-listed states, his findings showed that votes cast in the polling units “exceeded the number of voters accredited on the BVAS in those states.”