Your Rigging Claim Fraudulent – Buhari’s Government Asks Peter Boi’s Labour And Atiku’s PDP To Stop Crying Over Lost Election
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Labour Party, and other opposition parties have been advised by the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari to stop complaining nonstop about the 2023 presidential election, which they dreadfully lost, because they are fully aware that they deserved to lose the election due to their arrogance and complacency.
Recall that on March 1, 2023, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) certified Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the election that was held on February 25, defeating Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, Peter Obi of the LP, and others.
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, claimed in a statement released on Saturday, April 29, 2023, in Abuja that President Buhari’s evaluation of the causes why
Lai Mohammed stated that the President deserves only praise for conducting unquestionably the best election in Nigeria’s history and added that the opposition’s tumultuous but expected response to the President’s statements has exposed them for what they are: shameless losers.
President Muhammadu Buhari “lived up to his billing by delivering a free, fair, and credible election,” he declared, adding that his legacy is secure. The President created a level playing field for all parties because he would sooner lose his state and many of his party’s strongholds than tamper with the integrity of the election.
The Minister observed that the opposition’s overconfidence going into the election stemmed in part from the blitzkrieg of social media propaganda as well as faulty and procured opinion polls, which were apparently meant to hoodwink their foreign backers and a section of the international media into uncritically reporting that they were coasting home to victory when they were indeed heading into the ravine of defeat.
Lai Mohammed boasted that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, won the presidential election fair and square, clinching the majority of the votes cast and surpassing the constitutionally stipulated 25% of votes cast in each of at least two-thirds of all the states in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory.
According to him, ”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. They conveniently forgot what Ambassador Johnnie Carson, the revered US diplomat who co-led the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and International Republican Institute (IRI) International Election Observation Mission to Nigeria said: that the APC candidate undoubtedly won the polls.
“They also forgot that the African Union Election Observation Mission to Nigeria said the atmosphere was generally calm and peaceful in 95% of the polling units visited,” he said, adding that it is on the strength of these reports that many nations, including the US and the UK, wasted no time in congratulating the victorious APC Presidential Candidate, he added.
The minister slammed the opposition for continuously seeking to mislead the world by clutching at the weak straw that results were not immediately uploaded onto the IReV Portal, as if the portal has any role to play in the collation of results.
”The opposition’s insinuation that the failure to immediately upload the result of the presidential election onto IReV affected the credibility of the election is a fraud. It is an act of blackmail and deceit by desperate individuals. The opposition Labour Party, in particular, will go down in the history books as the first-ever distant third-place finisher in a presidential election anywhere to have bold-facedly claimed victory,” he said.