Arise News anchor, Rufai Oseni, has challenged Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), to provide evidence supporting his claim that he won the 2023 presidential election.

Obi had said there was no evidence to prove his claim that he won the election on the platform of the Labour Party.

Reacting to the statement on Arise Television, Oseni said Obi should not make a claim he could not substantiate with evidence.

“Mr Peter Obi, it is best you do not say things if you do not have the evidence. I must repeat it, because when you say that I won the election, you don’t have the evidence to back it up, then people do not take what you say seriously,” he said.

Oseni also questioned whether Obi had conducted his own analysis of the election results before making the claim.

“Didn’t you have backend analysis of result by result before you made the claim? Where are all your own data spreadsheets on the backend that assert your claim? Where is your own backend collation that asserts your claim?” he asked.

The Arise anchor said merely asserting that Obi won the election was insufficient without supporting evidence.

He added that Obi might have won, but argued that

the claim would carry no weight without data or other evidence to substantiate it.