The Labour Party (LP) has told President Muhammadu Buhari that the All Progressives Congress (APC) did not win the 2023 presidential election. According to LP, the ruling party “stole” the people’s mandate. The LP was reacting to a comment by President Muhammadu Buhari that opposition parties lost the poll due to overconfidence and bad tactics. Obiora Ifoh, LP’s acting national publicity secretary, in a statement on Friday, said “The president was “completely wrong to say opposition parties lost because of overconfidence”. He said the opposition parties lost the poll because “it was manipulated and rigged beyond comprehension”. “The Labour Party is very worried and disturbed with the statement from the office of the President wherein he said that the opposition parties lost the 2023 presidential election because of their overconfidence, complacency and bad tactical moves, which he claimed created more problems for them,” the statement reads. We want to point it out clearly to President Muhammadu Buhari that his position on the outcome of the said election was false, untrue, and it is not a true reflection of what played out during the election.“There are several reasons why opposition political parties lost the 2023 election; the first is that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) snubbed the electoral act wherein it failed to upload the result from the polling unit in real time as promised and in disregard the laws guiding the election. The INEC by so doing, created room for that election to be rigged. “Again, the current APC president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu didn’t win the election, because the said election, particularly, the presidential election was manipulated and rigged beyond comprehension. “So political parties didn’t lose the election because of overconfidence or complacency as proffered by Mr President, APC, in collaboration with the various government agencies, simply rigged the election and rigged themselves into power. “All of these put together. Do they amount to overconfidence and complacency on the part of the opposition party? It shows that the President who promised Nigerians that he would give Nigerians a free, fair, and credible election simply failed in his duty in giving Nigerians the election they deserved. “So, Mr President is entirely wrong. I believe that he was ill-advised. It was erroneous for him to say that opposition parties lost the election because of overconfidence. “In fact, Labour Party won the election but it was brazenly stolen by APC. Mr President is aware that APC did not win the election and that it was stolen.”