Dele Alake, a media aide to Bola Tinubu, president-elect,
says it’s unfair for a section of the international media to describe the
country’s presidential election as fraudulent.
Speaking at a meeting with representatives of international
media organisations in Abuja on Thursday, Alake alleged that some of the
outlets took sides with candidates on the basis of “flawed polls”.
The president-elect’s aide said these events have led to a
“mischaracterisation” of Tinubu that they object to.
“With the eventual outcome of the election at variance with
some of the Labour Party-sponsored pre-election predictions, many international
media organisations that took premature positions on the basis of these flawed
polls, found themselves blind-spotted, leading to some of the skewed reports
about the election,” Alake said.
“We object to the
mischaracterisation of the presidential election by a section of the international
media.
“Contrary to the innuendos and aspersions being cast on the
election by organisations such as Financial Times, Economist, New York Times
among others, we make bold to say that the 2023 Presidential election is the
most credible, most free and most fair national election in Nigeria since 1999.
“We consider it unfair and quite uncharitable to describe
the last election as fraudulent, manipulated or flawed.
“All the noise over
results not being uploaded on the INEC server was misplaced. The election in
Nigeria is done at about 176,000 polling units. The results are announced,
signed by party agents and sent to collation centres at ward, council and state
levels.
“Results are tallied at the state level and announced.”
Alake said Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New
Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), failed at the polls because of the way they split
votes among themselves.
“It must be stressed that only the APC went into the 2023
election intact,” he said.
“These divisions
within the main opposition played out in our favour. It was a repeat of 2015
when some PDP states supported the new coalition of parties called APC and gave
President Buhari a resounding victory.
“The presidential candidate of PDP at his post-election
press conference admitted that the Labour Party swept away his party’s votes
from its traditional stronghold in south-east and south-south.
“He is yet to admit the impact of the rebellion of the G5
governors and Kwankwaso in the large voting state of Kano.”
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When a referee awards a questionable penalty in the dying seconds of an important match, the winning teams sees itself as having performed well but the underlying truth is that the penalty was inappropriate. 2023 presidential election in Nigeria was the mother of all fraudulent elections. This is the simple truth and even APC knows that.
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