The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign
council has asked Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) and Atiku Abubakar of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to accept defeat by calling congratulate Bola
Tinubu.
Dele Alake, the campaign council’s media adviser, spoke at a
media briefing on Tuesday in Abuja.
The collation of results for the election is ongoing and
Tinubu has won in 12 states, while also securing the constitutionally-required
25 percent of valid votes in several other states.
Recall that Adewole Adebayo, presidential candidate of the
Social Democratic Party (SDP), said Abubakar and Obi should show they love
Nigeria by conceding to Tinubu.
Speaking at the event, Alake asked the two candidates should
follow the example of former President Goodluck Jonathan who congratulated
President Muhammadu Buhari even before a winner was declared in the 2015
election.
“We call on Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, to emulate former
President Goodluck Jonathan by conceding defeat,” he said.
“This election has already been won by our candidate,
according to the results declared at the collation centres in the state.
“In 2015, President
Jonathan did not wait for INEC to finish collation before he called President
Muhammadu Buhari and congratulated him in the true spirit of democracy and
sportsmanship.
“We urge Atiku Abubakar and Obi to follow the same path of
honour, instead of attempting to heat the polity via the reckless statements by
surrogates. Let Atiku and Obi call Tinubu now.”
Also speaking at the media briefing, Festus Keyamo,
spokesperson of the APC presidential campaign council, tackled critics calling
for the resignation of Mahmood Yakubu, chairperson of the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC).
Keyamo said that it was legally wrong for any candidate or
political party to call for a change in the electoral process when the final
result had not been declared.
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