Opposition’s rigging claim fraudulent, FG insists.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has told the opposition parties to stop complaining about the 2023 presidential election and accept defeat, describing that claims the elections were rigged as “fraudulent”.
In a statement signed by his Special Assistant (Media), Segun Adeyemi, on Sunday in Abuja, the minister stated that both Peter Obi of the Labour Party and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party lost the election due to overconfidence and complacency.
Mr Mohammed further said the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, won the presidential election fair and square and surpassed the constitutionally required 25 per cent of votes cast in each of at least two-thirds of all the states in the federation and the Federal Capital Territory.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has told the opposition parties to stop complaining about the 2023 presidential election and accept defeat, describing that claims the elections were rigged as “fraudulent”.
In a statement signed by his Special Assistant (Media), Segun Adeyemi, on Sunday in Abuja, the minister stated that both Peter Obi of the Labour Party and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party lost the election due to overconfidence and complacency.
Mr Mohammed further said the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, won the presidential election fair and square and surpassed the constitutionally required 25 per cent 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, the opposition’s overconfidence going into the election stemmed in part from 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.
SOURCE: PUNCH NEWSPAPER
