‘Labour Party Will Go Down For Claiming Tinubu’s Victory’ – Lai Mohammed

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has assured that the opposition Labour Party (LP) will go down in the history book for challenging and claiming victory in the 2023 presidential election.

”The opposition’s 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.

”The opposition Labour Party, in particular, will go down in the history books as the first-ever distant third-place finisher in a presidential election anywhere to have bold-facedly claimed victory,” Mohammed said.

VerseNews Nigeria reports that Mahammed said this in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday by Segun Adeyemi, the Special Assistant to the President on Media, Office of the Minister of Information and Culture.

The minister said the opposition candidates of Lp, Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lost woefully, adding that they knew they deserved to lose the election because of their overconfidence and complacency.

Mohammed said President Muhammadu Buhari’s analysis of the reasons for the opposition’s loss in the 2023 elections was incontrovertible, adding that the President deserves nothing but accolades for delivering undoubtedly the best election in Nigeria’s history.

The minister who earlier accused Obi of treason for challenging the outcome of the election said that “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.”

“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,” he added.

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Mohammed insisted that the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, won the presidential election fair and square, by 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.

He said, “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.

“They (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.

”They 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.”

The minister said that based on the reports, many nations, including the US and the UK wasted no time in congratulating Tinubu.