A message has been sent to Peter Obi of the LP and other opposition parties. The message was sent by the minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed.
He told them to stop complaining about the 2023 presidential election and accept defeat. According to Mohammed, claims that the 2023 presidential elections was rigged is fraudulent.
He disclosed this in a statement signed by his Special Assistant (Media), Segun Adeyemi, on Sunday in Abuja, and made available to Politics Nigeria.
The minister stated that both Peter Obi of the Labour Party and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party lost the election due to overconfidence and complacency.
He added that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, won the presidential election fair and square and surpassed the constitutionally required 25 per cent of votes cast in each of at least two-thirds of all the states in the federation and the Federal Capital Territory.
He said: “Going by the results, none of the opposition parties met any of the conditions stipulated for winning the presidential election. They didn’t even come close, in spite of their pre-election grandstanding. “They (opposition) keep leaning on some international observers to justify their fraudulent claim that the election was rigged.”
Going further, he defended Buhari’s verdict that the opposition parties lost the presidential poll due to overconfidence.
“Mr President’s analysis on the reasons for the opposition’s loss in the 2023 elections was incontrovertible. President Buhari deserves nothing but accolades for delivering undoubtedly the best election in Nigeria’s history, adding that the tempestuous but predictable reaction to the President’s comments by the opposition has shown them for what they are: shameless sore losers.
“President Muhammadu Buhari lived up to his billing by delivering a free, fair and credible election, and his legacy is assured. The President would rather lose his state and many of his party’s strongholds than tamper with the fidelity of the election, and that is why he provided a level playing field for all parties,’’ Mohammed added.
Reacting to the issue of IReV portal, Mohammed slammed the opposition for continuously seeking to mislead the world by clutching at the weak straw that results were not immediately uploaded onto the portal as if it has any role to play in the collation of results.
