.Says, election’s like full-term pregnancy, can’t be aborted. Accuses OBJ of plans to truncate democracy
Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has asked his closest opponents in last Saturday’s Presidential election, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP and Peter Obi of the Labour Party to emulate former President Goodluck Jonathan and concede defeat.
Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has asked his closest opponents in last Saturday’s Presidential election, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP and Peter Obi of the Labour Party to emulate former President Goodluck Jonathan and concede defeat.
Tinubu also cautioned both the PDP and the LP against calling for a cancellation of the exercise, saying the election is like pregnancy which cannot be aborted when it has reached full term.
The APC standard bearer equally accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of attempting to truncate the nation’s democracy by his call for the cancellation of election results in some parts of the country.
At a news conference Tuesday in Abuja, Special Adviser on Media, Public Affairs and Strategic Communications, Mr Dele Alake said Obasanjo’s call was anchored on the unsubstantiated claims, rumours and allegations of fraud by opposition parties led by PDP and LP, who have seen that they have lost the election would rather want Nigeria’s hard-won democracy to be truncated on the altar of their lies.
He said; “You must also be aware of the gang up by the PDP and Labour Party, whose agents walked out of the National Collation Centre in Abuja on Monday. Today, they continued their conspiracy to truncate our 24-year democratic journey by raising unfounded allegations against INEC, casting aspersions on the whole electoral process, and forgetting the process had handed them unexpected victories in some states.
“We have always suspected that Labour Party and PDP are the same, only divided by individual inordinate ambition. We want to remind them that election is a process like pregnancy. Like a pregnancy that has reached full term, it cannot be aborted. We are not in 1993 when June 12 was aborted by similar forces. It is too late to do so.
“The APC-PCC wants to say emphatically that former President Obasanjo has no moral right to meddle in this election let alone call for its cancellation because he is an interested party having publicly, on January 1 this year, endorsed the candidate of Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi.
“Although we stand by our position as stated yesterday not to jump the protocol governing the announcement of the election results and allow Independent National Electoral Commission to perform its constitutional duty, we want to tell the gathering anti-democratic forces that we have the strength, the determination and the will to protect and defend this process and the soon-to-be-formally announced mandate freely given to our party and Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima.
“We are very well aware of the plan of the PDP and their Labour Party collaborators to heighten tension in the country and create a general state of fear through their sponsored Television and Radio surrogates who continue to push false narratives about the general conduct of the election. We are also aware of the coordinated assault aimed at discrediting the whole electoral process and the integrity of INEC by their so-called paid and partisan agents who wear the toga of Election Observers.
“We consider Obasanjo’s failed attempt to scuttle the process through his unsolicited advice to President Muhammadu Buhari to cancel the election as part of the grand orchestration of many evil plots to truncate democracy in Nigeria.
“The integrity of the electoral process has been attested to by the international observers such as the Commonwealth, ECOWAS, European Union and African Union observer missions who adjudged the election as peaceful, free and fair whilst they identified areas of logistical improvements INEC should take into consideration in future elections.
“As you are well aware, the election was replete with drama. We saw the APC presidential candidate, party chairman and PCC
