The All Progressives Congress Campaign Council has called on the presidential candidates of Labour Party, Peter Obi and the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, to accept defeat by calling to congratulate the APC flag bearer, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

The charge was made by the PCC Special Adviser on Media and Strategic Communications, Dele Alake, at a world press conference held in Abuja to address the calls for the Independent National Electoral Commission results to cancel the election.

The development followed the demand by the PDP, LP and the African Democratic Congress for the INEC National Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, to step aside.

The three parties had in a joint press conference on Tuesday alleged that the February 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections were marred with violence, rigging and intimidation of voters.

In the same vein, the PDP vice presidential candidate, Ifeanyi Okowa, has asked Yakubu in a similar conference to cancel the results of Saturday’s elections.

Okowa claimed that there was no transparency in the recently concluded elections because the results were not transmitted to polling units.

But the APC PCC disclosed that those calling for such illegality are not true adherents of democracy.

While urging the supporters of Atiku and Obi to avoid heating the polity, Alake asked the two candidates to borrow a leaf from the exemplary leadership of former President Goodluck Jonathan in the spirit of sportsmanship.

He said, “We call on Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, to emulate former President Goodluck Jonathan by conceding defeat. This election has already been won by our candidate, according to the results declared at the collation centres in the state. In 2015, President Jonathan did not wait for INEC to finish collation before he called President Muhammadu Buhari and congratulated him in the true spirit of democracy and sportsmanship.

“We urge Atiku Abubakar and Obi to follow the same path of honour, instead of attempting to heat the polity via the reckless statements by surrogates. Let Atiku and Obi call Tinubu now.”

Alake, an ex-Lagos information commissioner, took a swipe at former President Olusegun Obasanjo for literally calling for the cancellation of last Saturday’s Presidential and National Assem
bly elections.

According to him, Obasanjo’s demand was anchored on unsubstantiated claims, rumours and allegations of fraud by the opposition parties after observing that they have lost the election.

While saying he was disappointed in the elder statesman statement, the PCC Special Adviser on Media noted that even Obasanjo himself once admitted in an interview that there is no ‘perfect’ electoral system anywhere in the world.

“The APC-PCC wants to say emphatically that former President Obasanjo has no moral right to meddle in this election let alone calling 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.

“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, forgetting the process had handed them unexpected victories in some states.

“We have always suspected that the 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,” he said.

The Chief Spokesman for the APC PCC, Festus Keyamo, also scolded critics calling for the resignation of the INEC chairman.

Keyamo stated that it was “legally wrong” for any candidate or political party to call for a change in the electoral process when the official results had not even not even been declared.

This is pure open daylight robbery

The can NEVER escape this rigging

The youths are coming for them

It will happen so fast that they will not be able to escape

Massive Nationwide riots loading

Just wait for INEC to announce the results

220,000,000 people and how many soldiers do we have in the arm forces less than 5,000,000.

The security forces can NEVER crush over 220,000,000 Nigerians

Let that sink

Pride won't allow them! 🤣

Have they arrested the founder of agberos in Nigeria, the drug landlord of Africa and the murderer of Funso Williams?

Keyamo should keep quiet jare. As a lawyer he should know that criminals(aka APC) are always afraid of investigations .

Same Jonathan that the APC used malicious lies and wicked propaganda to remove from government? The illegalities perpetuated by INEC in this election is unprecedented. Imagine not loading results on the server as when due giving to falsification of election results, legalising and declaring irreconcilable electoral figure as in the case in Ekiti, Ondo.

Peter in pains!

He should be given time to digest his loss at the polls.

It’s human to go into shock for sometime after defeat.

People around Peter should give him milk. It will help in times lie these.

Criminals advising sane people to accept criminality. Wetin Musa never see for gate. 🤣🤣🤣

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Peter in pains!

He should be given time to digest his loss at the polls.

It’s human to go into shock for sometime after defeat.

This is psychosis. Imagine an urchin trolling a billionaire who's spearheading a revolutionary movement that defeated his master in his fiefdom and all over Nigeria. Somebody clearly needs a doctor's appointment 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Jonathan is a weakling

Reinaldo:


This is psychosis. Imagine an urchin trolling a billionaire who's spearheading a revolutionary movement that defeated his master in his fiefdom and all over Nigeria. Somebody clearly needs a doctor's appointment 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Revo what?

You still in shock and finding it hard to chose words!

Anyways! Asiwaju has won! The party is over!

yoruba muslims are greater than all igbo Christians in Nigeria history, first it's mko abiola, it's now Tinubu that will rule you all. He used you foools