- Atiku, Obi Should Congratulate APC like Former President Jonathan
Barely 24 hours after former President Olusegun Obasanjo called for the cancellation of the ongoing presidential election, the All Progressives Congress, APC have said that he lacked the moral right to meddle in the process, much less calling for it’s cancellation.
The APC stated that the former President has already demonstrated bias by publicly, on January 1, 2023, endorsed the candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi.
The Special Adviser, Media, Public Affairs and Strategic Communications of All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, Dele Alake disclosed that the call by the former President was anchored on unsubstantiated claims, rumours and allegations of fraud by the opposition parties led by the Peoples Democratic Party and Labour Party, LP .
He stated that both parties, having seen that they have lost the election would rather want to truncate the ongoing democratic process on the altar of falsehood.
Alake said that the APC was not unaware of the gang up by the two political parties, PDP and LP to truncate the nation’s 24 years democratic journey by raising unfounded allegations against the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, casting aspersions on the whole electoral process, forgetting the process had handed them unexpected victories in some states.
“We have always suspected that the LP and PDP are the same, only divided by individual inordinate ambition,” he said.
The APC reiterated its stand against jumping the protocol governing the announcement of the election results and allow the INEC to perform its constitutional duties.
The APC however urged the presidential candidates of the PDP and LP parties to emulate former President Goodluck Jonathan by conceding defeat rather than attempting to heat the polity via reckless statements by surrogates.
