Mohammed discussed the just-ended 2023 elections in Washington, DC, during formal contacts with a number of international media organisations.
While seeking redress in court over the election’s results, the minister charged Obi with inciting people to violence.
“Obi and his vice, Datti Ahmed, cannot be threatening Nigerians that the end of democracy in Nigeria would come with the inauguration of president-elect Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on May 29,” he was reported as saying by NAN.
“This is high treason.” You can’t be encouraging rebellion, and that’s what they are.
Obi is not a democrat, as he claimed to be, and his comment comes from a place of desperation.
“A democrat should not just have faith in democracy when he wins elections,”
The minister went on to say that neither Obi nor Atiku Abubakar, the People’s Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidates, had any chance of succeeding in their challenges of the election results since they both fell short of constitutional conditions for declaration as president.
“The constitution contains strict requirements for any entity that wants to be the country’s president,” he stated.
Only the president-elect, with 8.79 million votes and 25% of the vote in 29 federated states, was able to meet the requirements.
“You cannot win an election in which you finished in a distant third place and did not fulfil the standards set out by the constitution.
“Peter Obi, although alleging fraud, has not renounced his victory in Lagos.
The minister explained his purpose for travelling to the US, saying it was to refute the unfavourable accounts of the election that the opposition was spreading.
The just-concluded general elections in Nigeria were the fairest, most transparent, and most authentic in Nigerian history, he said. “We have come here to balance those distorted narratives and to tell the world unequivocally that,” he remarked.
Because of the implementation of the Bimodal Voter Verification System (BVVS), which I consider to be a game changer, the election was the most fair and credible ever.
