Lai Mohammed, the minister of information and culture, has urged the opposition to quit complaining nonstop about the 2023 presidential election, which they dreadfully lost. He claims that the opposition is well aware that they deserved to lose the election due to their arrogance and complacency.
The Minister claimed that President Buhari’s analysis of the causes of the opposition’s defeat in the 2023 elections was unquestionable in a statement released in Abuja on Sunday, April 30.
He added that the opposition’s tumultuous but expected response to the President’s statements has exposed them for what they are: shameless sore losers. He claimed that the President deserves nothing but praise for conducting unquestionably the best election in Nigeria’s history. Recall that President Buhari stated a few days ago that the overconfidence of the opposition parties was the reason they lost the election.
”President Muhammadu Buhari lived up to his billing by delivering a free, fair and credible election, and his legacy is assured. The President would rather lose his state and many of his party’s strongholds than tamper with the fidelity of the election, and that is why he provided a level playing field for all parties,” Mohammed said.
The Minister said the opposition’s overconfidence going into the election stemmed in part from the blitzkrieg of 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.
The Minister said the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, won the presidential election fair and square, clinching the majority of the votes cast and surpassing the constitutionally-stipulated 25% of votes cast in each of at least two-thirds of all the states in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory.
”Going by the results, none of the opposition parties met any of the conditions stipulated for winning the presidential election. They didn’t even come close, in spite of their pre-election grandstanding.
