Osifo Stanley. Credit: F Ọ L Ú | X

Businessman and contender for the All Progressives Congress presidential ticket, Stanley Osifo, on Sunday said his defeat in the party’s primary will not deter him from working for its success in the 2027 elections, adding that “God knows better.”

“I think God knows better, and God knows tomorrow,” Osifo said when he spoke exclusively to our correspondent immediately after the collation and declaration at the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre, Abuja.

He polled 16,503 votes against President Bola Tinubu’s 10,999,162 in the nationwide direct primary conducted across 8,809 wards on Saturday.

Asked if he was satisfied with the outcome, Osifo said: “I’m not okay with the outcome of the results. And I’m working with the party, I’m working with the candidate of the party as well. I have no problem with it.”