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Ahead of the final release of the results of the Presidential Election, the Federal Government has warned former President Olusegun Obasanjo not to truncate the poll with an inciting, self-serving, and provocative letter.
It accused the ex-President of a “calculated attempt to undermine the electoral process.”
It asked Obasanjo and other complainants to allow the legal course on electoral disputes instead of threatening fire and conjuring apocalypse.
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The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, made the government’s position known against the backdrop of Obasanjo’s call for the cancelation of the presidential and National Assembly elections.
Mohammed, in a statement in Abuja, said Obasanjo was trying to incite violence.
THE STATEMENT SAID:
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“What the former President cunningly framed as an ‘appeal for caution and rectification’ is nothing but a calculated attempt to undermine the electoral process and a willful incitement to violence.”
The Minister expressed shock and disbelief that a former President could” throw around unverified claims and amplify wild allegations picked up from the street against the electoral process.”
MOHAMMED ADDED:
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”Though masquerading as an unbiased and concerned elder statesman.
“Former President Obasanjo is in reality a known partisan who is bent on thwarting, by subterfuge, the choice of millions of Nigerian voters.”
He recalled that the former President,” in his time, organized perhaps the worst election since Nigeria’s return to democratic rule in 1999.
He said Obasanjo was the least qualified to advise a President whose determined effort to leave a legacy of free, fair, credible and transparent election is well- acknowledged within and outside Nigeria.
HE SAID:
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”As the whole nation waits with bated breath for the result of last Saturday’s national elections, amid unnecessary tension created by professional complainants and political jesters, what is expected from a self-respecting elder statesman are words and actions that douse tension and serve as a soothing balm.
”Instead, former President Obasanjo used his unsolicited letter to insinuate, or perhaps wish for, an inconclusive election and a descent into anarchy; used his time to cast aspersion on electoral officials who are unable to defend themselves, while surreptitiously seeking to dress his personal choice in the garb of the people’s choice. This is duplicitous.”
The Minister reminded the former President that organising elections in Nigeria were “not a mean feat, considering that the voter population of 93,469,008 in the country is 16,742,916 more than the total number of registered voters, at 76,726,092, in 14 West African nations put together.”
HE SAID:
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”With the deployment of over 1,265,227 electoral officials, the infusion of technology to enhance the electoral process and the logistical nightmare of sending election materials across our vast country, INEC seems to be availing itself creditably, going by the preliminary reports of the ECOWAS Electoral Observation Mission and the Commonwealth Observer Group, among other groups that observed the election.
”Therefore, those arrogating to themselves the power to cancel an election and unilaterally fix a date for a new one, ostensibly to ameliorate perceived electoral infractions, should please exercise restraint and allow the official electoral body to conclude its duty by announcing the results of the 2023 national elections.
‘After that, anyone who is aggrieved must follow the stipulated legal process put in place to adjudicate electoral disputes, instead of threatening fire and conjuring apocalypse. “
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