Afrigather Presidential candidate of the Labour Celebration, Peter Obi, has been warned in opposition to inciting individuals to violence over the result of the presidential election.
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Data and Tradition, gave this admonition in Washington DC throughout his official engagements with some worldwide media organisations on the simply concluded 2023 polls.
A number of the media organisations embrace the Washington Put up, Voice of America, Related Press, and International Coverage Journal.
Talking throughout the interactions with the media organisations, Mohammed mentioned, “Obi and his vice, Datti Ahmed, can’t be threatening Nigerians that if the President-elect, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress is sworn in on the twenty ninth of Could, it is going to be the top of democracy in Nigeria.
He added, “That is treason. You can’t be inviting revolt, and that is what they’re doing.”
Mohammed likens Obi to a determined individual
The minister of Data mentioned, “Obi’s assertion is that of a determined individual.” He additionally pressured that Obi just isn’t the Democrat he claims to be. In line with him, a democrat shouldn’t consider in democracy solely when he wins the election.”
Additionally, Mohammed famous that there was no pathway to victory for both Obi or Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Celebration as they didn’t meet the constitutional necessities to be declared as president.
Talking additional, Mohammed defined that the structure has stringent standards for anyone who desires to be president of the nation. He hinted that the candidate should not solely “have the plurality of vote forged in an election, however he should even have scored one-quarter of votes forged in a minimum of 25 states.”
He mentioned, “Solely the president-elect met the standards by scoring 8.79 million votes and having one-quarter of all of the votes forged in 29 states of the federation.”
The knowledge minister mentioned Atiku got here second with 6.9 million votes and was solely capable of make one-quarter of the votes forged in 21 states, whereas Obi got here third with 5.8 million votes however gained solely one-quarter of the votes forged in 15 states.
Mohammed maintained that Obi can’t win an election in a ballot the place he “got here to a distant third place and failed to fulfill constitutional necessities.”
