The president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has reacted to the statement credited to the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi, over the just-concluded presidential election.
In a statement by the Director of Public Affairs and Chief Spokesperson, Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo (SAN), 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 presidential election, but he was robbed of the victory.“
Having been officially declared winner of the 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 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.”
