{"id":87128,"date":"2023-04-30T09:16:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T08:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/stop-griping-over-election-you-lost-hands-down-lai-mohammed-mocks-pdp-lp"},"modified":"2023-04-30T13:03:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T12:03:23","slug":"stop-griping-over-election-you-lost-hands-down-lai-mohammed-mocks-pdp-lp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/stop-griping-over-election-you-lost-hands-down-lai-mohammed-mocks-pdp-lp","title":{"rendered":"Stop griping over election you lost hands down \u2013 Lai Mohammed mocks PDP, LP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has advised the opposition to stop their endless griping over the 2023 presidential election which they lost woefully.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement he issued on Sunday, Lai Mohammed said President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s analysis of the reasons for the opposition\u2019s loss in the 2023 elections was incontrovertible.<\/p>\n<p>He said the opposition lost the election because of their overconfidence and complacency.<\/p>\n<p>He said the President deserves nothing but accolades for delivering undoubtedly the best election in Nigeria\u2019s history, adding that \u201dthe tempestuous but predictable reaction to the President\u2019s comments by the opposition has shown them for what they are: shameless sore losers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dPresident 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\u2019s strongholds than tamper with the fidelity of the election, and that is why he provided a level playing field for all parties,\u201d Mohammed said.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed claimed the opposition\u2019s 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 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.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister said the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dGoing by the results, none of the opposition parties met any of the conditions stipulated for winning the presidential election. They didn\u2019t even come close, in spite of their pre-election grandstanding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThey (the opposition) keep leaning on some international observers to justify their fraudulent claim that the election was rigged. They conveniently forgot what Ambassador Johnnie Carson, the revered US diplomat who co-led the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and International Republican Institute (IRI) International Election Observation Mission to Nigeria said: that the APC candidate undoubtedly won the polls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThey also forgot that the African Union Election Observation Mission to Nigeria said the atmosphere was generally calm and peaceful in 95% of the polling units visited,\u201d he said, adding that it is on the strength of these reports that many nations, including the US and the UK, wasted no time in congratulating the victorious APC Presidential Candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed slammed the opposition for continuously seeking to mislead the world by clutching at the weak straw that results were not immediately uploaded onto the IReV Portal, as if the portal has any role to play in the collation of results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe opposition\u2019s insinuation that the failure to immediately upload the result of the presidential election onto IReV affected the credibility of the election is a fraud. It is an act of blackmail and deceit by desperate individuals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe opposition Labour Party, in particular, will go down in the history books as the first-ever distant third-place finisher in a<\/p>\n<p>presidential election anywhere to have bold-facedly claimed victory,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has advised the opposition to stop their endless griping over the 2023 presidential election which they lost woefully. 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