Nigerian investigative journalist David Hundeyin has listed some reasons why Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), lost the elections in 2023.

Hundeyin, a key ally of the former Anambra State governor, stated that Nigerians were deceived by the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, who claimed that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machines had never failed and would not fail Nigerians in the 2023 general election.

However, the elections at the federal and state levels were fraught with irregularities.

Speaking in a recent podcast, Hundeyin mentioned that Peter Obi had prepared to the best of his ability before the elections. In excerpts of his interview, he said: "I think there were mistakes the movement made, not mistakes he made. I think, as far as the Nigerian conversation goes, he did the best he could. I think the mistake we made as a collective was that we heard something and what we thought we heard wasn't what we heard."

"Yakubu Mahmood told a lie because he said the BVAS would be used to tabulate results, and that was not true. I think that was the first mistake we made. The Electoral Amendment Act we thought we had was not what we had."

"I think Peter Obi himself believed the BVAS was going to be used, and I know this because he told me personally. Then I think in the immediate aftermath, the results shouldn't have been announced. The way the Kenyans are doing right now, there should have been an immediate uprising."

The Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Bola Tinubu, the candidate of Nigeria’s ruling party, APC, as the winner of Saturday’s presidential election.

Tinubu defeated 17 other candidates who took part in the election. He scored a total of 8,794,726 votes, the highest of all the candidates, thus meeting the first constitutional requirement to be declared the winner.

He also scored over 25 percent of the votes cast in 30 states, more than the 24 states constitutionally required.

INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu, who announced the final results, said Atiku Abubakar of the PDP came second in the election.