Kashim Shettima, the vice president-elect, has called on the major opposition candidates, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi, presidential flag-bearer of the Labour Party, to “join forces to rescue our country” to avert anarchy.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Shettima urged the opposition candidates to accept the outcome of the 2023 election that produced his principal, Bola Tinubu, as Nigeria’s next president.
Speaking in an interview with BBC Hausa on Wednesday, the former Borno State governor said: “In my own understanding, this is the most free and fair election ever conducted like the one on Saturday. It was conducted according to what the law says.”
“I believe those who are calling for the cancellation of the polls haven’t come out to explain to the people where there were mistakes during the polls.
“Our candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu lost his state Lagos and also Ikeja which is his local government, we didn’t say anything.
“The president since 2003 has never lost in Katsina state, but in this election, he lost and we didn’t say anything.
“You see in Abia they said we got 8,914, and the LP candidate they said got 302,795. We didn’t say anything because we believe it’s God who gives power and we have to accept the outcome of the election.
“The Labour Party won in Abuja, they were on top in Nasarawa state, they won in Plateau state. In Imo, where we have a sitting governor, we got about sixty-something thousand.
“Therefore, they (the opposition) should accept the outcome of the polls and accept that it’s God who gives power.
“The best thing to do is for us to come together and join forces to rescue our country. I have a strong feeling that Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president and Mr Peter Obi won’t want our country to go into chaos or be destroyed.”
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Hello ! Folks, I just wanna people to understand one thing that in anything we do ‘s game, and also ”Life” itself ‘s a game, sometimes u loose or win, and we should try to be a ”Good Looser not a Bad Looser” in this presidential election that just concluded, other remaining contestants should try to be Good Losses not bad Losses, different between ”Good Losers and Bad Loosers” ‘s Good Losers always go back to drawing Board to set mistakes right, but Bad Losers always ”ll be find ”Faults” and ”ll be looking for persons or things to put ”Blames” on, at least ”Jagaban” lost five states which he supposed to have won outright states like ”Lagos, Oshun, Kaduna, Kano, and home of President Buhari” which Katsina” which ”Jagaban” never fumed, but at end of it all He won, others are ”Fuming” what are they ”Fuming” ?? for, other Contestants should try to be ”Good Losers not Bad Loosers” they should go back to ‘Drawing Board” and set right their mistakes, ‘Finito”