The All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign council has
criticised the position of former President Olusegun Obasanjo who has called
for the cancellation of allegedly manipulated polls.
Earlier on Monday, Obasanjo had advised President Muhammadu
Buhari to take urgent steps to address the tensions following allegations of
discrepancies in election results.
He had also said in areas found to have been affected by
compromise, the elections should be cancelled and redone.
Reacting to the development in a statement, Dele Alake,
spokesperson of the APC campaign council, accused the former president of
“hypocrisy” and “mischief”, adding that “what Obasanjo is subtly calling for in
his nefarious statement is a coup against democracy and the constitution”.
“Our attention has
been drawn to a press statement by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in which
he was virtually calling for a truncation of the ongoing electoral process and
a cancellation of already conducted elections on the basis of frivolous,
unfounded and baseless allegations by politicians who are sore losers and have
no respect for democratic values,” the statement reads.
“Obasanjo repeated without the slightest iota of evidence
rumours he had picked up that the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System had been
compromised and that the results of elections being announced are fraudulent.
“It is tragic that a former President who ought to be a
statesman in comportment and speech will recklessly seek to endanger and derail
our democratic process for utterly selfish, egoistic and malicious reasons. He
offers not a single credible piece of evidence to prove his laughable and
ridiculous allegations against INEC and the credibility of the ongoing process.
“Of course, we are
all aware that Obasanjo is not an impartial and disinterested party as far as
this election is concerned. On January 1, 2023, he had issued a
characteristically lengthy epistle to Nigerians endorsing the candidacy of Mr
Peter Obi and asking Nigerian youths to vote en masse for him.
“Of course our reaction was that the former President was
entitled to his view and that the outcome of the elections would demonstrate if
he had any electoral value. As fate would have it, Peter Obi was defeated even
in Obasanjo’s own polling unit in Abeokuta in Ogun State. But it is now obvious
that the only election Obasanjo will agree to being free, fair and credible is
one that produces Obi as winner which is ridiculous.
“Is Obasanjo also querying the outcome of the presidential
elections in Lagos or Delta where Obi won? If the outcome in Lagos won by Obi
is free and credible, on what basis is he querying the outcome of the elections
in other places?
“This is pure mischief and sheer hypocrisy. Obasanjo wants
President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in an undemocratic manner to truncate
the ongoing political process just the way he did most shamelessness in the
2003 and 2007 elections widely described as the worst in our political history.
“Luckily, President
Buhari is made of finer and more principled democratic stuff. He will not allow
Obasanjo to lure him into tainting his democratic credentials in this regard.”
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