Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Info and Tradition, has suggested the opposition events to cease their clutching over the 2023 presidential election and settle for defeat over the election they misplaced woefully.
The minister mentioned this in a press release issued by his particular Assistant (Media) Segun Adeyemi. He mentioned, Mr President’s evaluation on the explanations for the opposition’s loss within the 2023 elections was incontrovertible.
In accordance with Mohammed, President Buhari deserves an accolade for delivering the most effective election in Nigeria’s historical past. He mentioned “including that the tempestuous however predictable response to the President’s feedback by the opposition has proven them for what they’re: shameless sore losers”.
He mentioned the president offered a free, credible and honest election, and his legacy is assured. Additionally, the president would moderately lose his state and a few of his occasion’s stronghold than tamper with the constancy of the election or jeopardize it.
Mohammed added that each Peter Obi of the Labour Occasion and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Occasion misplaced the election because of their overconfidence and complacency.
He additionally burdened that the opposition’s overconfidence going into the election stemmed partially from the blitzkrieg of social media propaganda in addition to defective and procured opinion polls, which have been apparently meant to hoodwink their international backers and a bit of the worldwide media into uncritically reporting that they have been coasting dwelling to victory after they have been certainly heading into the ravine of defeat.
Mohammed additional mentioned the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, received the presidential election honest and sq., clinching nearly all of the votes solid and surpassing the constitutionally-stipulated 25% of votes solid in every of no less than two-thirds of all of the states within the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory.
He added that not one of the opposition events met any of the situations stipulated for successful the presidential election going by the outcomes. They didn’t even come shut, regardless of their pre-election grandstanding.
”They (opposition) preserve leaning on some worldwide observers to justify their fraudulent declare that the election was rigged.”
Additionally Mohammed mentioned, “They conveniently forgot what Ambassador Johnnie Carson, the revered US diplomat who co-led the Nationwide Democratic Institute and Worldwide Republican Institute Worldwide Election Remark Mission to Nigeria mentioned that the APC candidate undoubtedly received the polls.
”In addition they forgot that the African Union Election Remark Mission to Nigeria mentioned the ambiance was typically calm and peaceable in 95% of the polling models visited,” he mentioned, including that it’s on the energy of those studies that many countries, together with the US and the UK, wasted no time in congratulating the victorious APC presidential candidate.”
Mohammed slammed the opposition for constantly looking for to mislead the world by clutching over the difficulty of the IReV portal, that outcomes weren’t instantly uploaded onto the portal as if it has any function to play within the collation of outcomes.
He mentioned, “The opposition’s insinuation that the failure to right away add the results of the presidential election onto IReV affected the credibility of the election is a fraud. It’s an act of blackmail and deceit by determined people.
”The opposition Labour Occasion, particularly, will go down within the historical past books because the first-ever distant third-place finisher in a presidential election wherever to have bold-facedly claimed victory,” he added.