The president-elect, Bola Tinubu has reacted to the
statement made by the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter
Obi.
Obi, during a press conference on Thursday, argued that he
won the just concluded presidential election.
In a statement signed by the Director of Public Affairs and
Chief Spokesperson, Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Festus
Keyamo advised the former governor of Anambra State to stop misleading the
gullible, noting that Tinubu won the election and not him.
According to him: ”We make this brief statement in reaction
to the Press briefing held earlier today by the defeated candidate of the
Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, wherein (in his now well-acknowledged penchant for
spewing falsehood) he made the outlandish claim before the world that he won
the 2023 Presidential Election, but he was robbed of the victory.
“Having been officially declared winner of the 2023
Presidential Election by the Independent National Electoral Commission and
having received his Certificate of Return (along with his Vice-President
Elect), the President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu would have ignored this
continuous false claims being peddled by Mr. Peter Obi and his supporters. But
we recognise his motive of doing this is to simply delegitimise the mandate
freely given to the President-Elect by majority of Nigerians.
“Mr. Peter Obi is always quick to cite some isolated
incidents of irregularities outside his strongholds that could not have
SUBSTANTIALLY affected the outcome of the results in those areas, whereas he DELIBERATELY
fails to comment on tons and tons of evidence circulating everywhere wherein
his supporters in his strongholds engaged in thuggery, hooliganism, violence
and outright falsification of figures against our Party and our supporters. He
pretends to play the victim, whereas he is the greatest culprit in this game of
brickbats.
“Mr. Peter Obi knows HE COULD NOT HAVE won having played the
most divisive religious politics in our history and the pattern of the votes
clearly show that; Mr. Obi KNOWS HE COULD NOT HAVE WON having broken out as a
fragment of the main opposition, the PDP and all he could hope for was to
harvest a portion of the votes of PDP in a section of the country and the
results do NOT tell a lie; Mr. Obi knows HE COULD NOT HAVE WON, when he
presented himself as a tribal candidate and was only campaigning in settlements
of his tribesmen in other States outside the South East instead of appealing to
all and sundry; Mr. Obi knows he could not have won having joined the Labour
Party few months ago and bought the ticket of the Party without valid Primaries
and thereby polarised his party; Mr. Peter Obi KNOWS HE DID NOT WIN because he
did not even fulfil the minimum requirement of our constitution which requires
a spread of 25 percent in two-thirds of the States of the Federation. He did
not come close. With his divisive rhetorics, he could not have ever come close.
“It is also ludicrous that Mr. Peter Obi is laying claim to
victory along with his new-found partner, the PDP, that is also laying claim to
victory. I tweeted this morning, thus: ‘’This is the first time in my entire
life that I am seeing people who came 2nd and 3rd in an exam both claiming they
took first and then agreeing to protest together to the examiner to record that
both of them took first, yet they are not seeing the contradiction in their
actions.’’ We stand by that comment.
“The President-Elect, ASIWAJU Bola Ahmed Tinubu has extended
a hand of fellowship to his defeated opponents, including Mr. Peter Obi to join
hands with him in nation-building.
“Mr. Peter Obi should embrace that hand of fellowship and
brotherhood by the President-elect as a committed patriot instead of engaging
in this crass grandstanding
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Since you are convinced that Nigerians will vote for you, and you are going to win the election, why did you not follow the normal electoral process.
ReplyDeleteObi should approach court, if feel won the elections 😁
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