Akin Osuntokun, director-general of the Labour Party (LP)
presidential campaign council, says President Muhammadu Buhari should be blamed
for the “fiasco” of the presidential election.
Speaking on Wednesday in an interview on Channels Television,
Osuntokun said Buhari was the one who promised to bequeath a free and fair
election to Nigeria.
He argued that the promise by the president did not
translate to the conduct of free and fair elections.
“The buck stops on his (Buhari) table and secondly it was
not the Nigerian public who said they were going to use the conduct of this
election as a yardstick to measure his performance,” Osuntokun said.
“He was the one who
said so repeatedly. He said, ‘I want to be remembered as the person who
conducted the best election’.
“So, how do you then reconcile this with what he said? How
do you reconcile the fiasco that we have on the ground?
Asked if results were rigged in places where LP won,
Osuntokun responded in affirmation, saying the party’s margins of victory were
reduced.
“Yes, they were
because we won with wider margins. The credible speculation about the result in
Lagos is that LP had about 900,000 or one million votes and then we were given
582,000 to beat APC with 572,000.
“So because of that I should accept the deceit, I should
accept that fraud because somebody has declared us winners.
“What about the areas where they have worked against your
interest? Even in the areas where we were declared as victors, we were still
cheated, especially Lagos.
“The margin with which we defeated the other political
parties in Lagos was extremely beyond what the INEC wrote down.”
Prior to the presidential and national assembly elections,
Buhari had, on numerous occasions, promised to bequeath a legacy of free and
fair elections.
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Blame yourself for contesting under a one mono tribe party that has no national spread. Next time you have structure everywhere b4 your party contest period
ReplyDeleteYou are the one to blame yourself and bury your head in shame, he is saying the truth.
ReplyDeleteYou are the one to blame yourself and bury your head in shame, he is saying the truth.
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