A presidential aspirant of the Action Alliance, AA, Joseph Faduri, on Thursday insisted that the Labour Party (LP) won the 2023 presidential election.

Faduri disclosed this while recalling how he informed the then LP presidential candidate, Peter Obi, that he would win after handing over the party’s flag to him.

Recall that Obi came third behind former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who contested on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and eventual winner President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had announced Tinubu of the APC as the winner of the election after he polled 37 percent of the votes, while Atiku got 29 percent and Obi got 25 percent.

However, Faduri, while featuring on Arise Television’s Morning Show, said: “My name is Joseph Faduri, for those who are seeing me for the first time.

“In 2022, I was the one who handed over the ticket to run for the election under the Labour Party, and I was here also to inform Nigerians that LP would win that election.

“And, like a joke, at the end of the day, we had Labour Party win that election.”

Faduri also spoke about INEC Chairman Joash Amupitan not recognising a court order acknowledging Kenneth Udeze as the authentic leader of the AA.

He added: “Now, the court order that Amupitan was referring to was the court order of a High Court in Osogbo. Under our constitution, a Court of Appeal is higher than a High Court.

“So, if a kangaroo judgment was obtained from the High Court and the authentic leader of the party, Kenneth Udeze, went to a Court of Appeal in Abuja to say, ‘No, that man is not the authentic leader of the party,’ and the court upheld that, then you will imagine that an INEC Chairman, who is supposed to be a referee, should obey a court order.

“But instead of obeying the order of the Court of Appeal, the INEC Chairman is sticking with the old order of the High Court and refusing to obey the Court of Appeal, and the reason is best known to him.”

Nigerian-born former two-time world heavyweight boxing champion, Anthony Olaseni Oluwafemi Joshua has stepped up his training routine with some gruesome drills ahead of his long-awaited grudge fight with fellow-Briton, Tyson Fury later this year.

Sports247 gathered that, in order not to be caught off guard by the very resilient Fury during their hugely expected bout in December, Joshua has resorted to an ancient method of stretching his body to the limit, while staying in peak shape.

Joshua, who has always been known to devote himself to tough physical drills during training, is keeping himself trim for the clash with the help of an ancient stretching machine, as the countdown gets tighter towards their epic bout in Cardiff, Wales on December 11th.

With the fight’s venue eventually taken away from Madison Square Garden in New York, USA, after Joshua’s camp held firm on it holding in the UK, the London 2012 Olympic Games gold medalist wants to take full advantage of stepping out on familiar terrain.

Before Cardiff was eventually chosen, both boxers continued raising contrasting views and exchanged hostile banter but, with the issue now solved, Joshua has shared a video of himself hooked up to a modern-day version of an ancient body suspension and stretching kit.

A report by UK’s SunSport adds, “In medieval times, Slavic martial artists and warriors would use a version of the machine to strengthen their tendons and open up their joints to stay combat-ready.

“Joshua looks to be just that after having his limbs and back contorted by the gruelling apparatus. At one point in the video, AJ was suspended in the air by his arms and legs (then) effortlessly twisting his core and lower back nearly 180 degrees.”

Sports247 reports further that it us now left to be seen if the unorthodox fitness technique would be good enough not only to keep ‘AJ’ in peak shape but also build his staying power, ahead of what could jolly well be a long night in the roped square with ‘The Gypsy King.’