Billed to defend the mandate of the party’s leader and president-elect, Bola Tinubu, the protesters said the failure or refusal to congratulate a new Nigerian leader could continue to fuel doubts over his mandate.

Suleiman Raji, one of the organisers who said he came in from Ilorin to attend the protest, said it was to condemn those who have been silent because their action or inaction could put Mr Tinubu’s mandate in jeopardy.

“They are refusing to congratulate him and that is why we keep seeing people coming with all manner of attacks on the president-elect,” Mr Raji said on Monday morning. “It is very wrong because he was elected by Nigerians in a free and fair campaign.”

John Onaiyekan, a frontline Christian leader in Nigeria, President Joe Biden of the United States and several other religious and political leaders in Nigeria and beyond appeared to have withheld congratulatory messages to Mr Tinubu.

Mr Tinubu was declared winner of Nigeria’s February 25, 2023, presidential election in a race that pitted him against three formidable challengers. Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party came second, while Peter Obi of the Labour Party came third. Both politicians are now challenging Mr Tinubu’s emergence as president-elect, alleging Mr Tinubu’s ineligibility and irregularities in the conduct of the exercise.

While Mr Onaiyekan has publicly disclosed his reasons for withholding any messages to Mr Tinubu, Mr Biden’s office has yet to state any grounds for its decision. Although the U.S. State Department congratulated Mr Tinubu, the president-elect’s supporters said a message from the White House would remove any doubts about the U.S. leader’s acceptance of the new Nigerian leader. In 2015, President Barack Obama congratulated Muhammadu Buhari on his election in that year’s election.

“We have to defend the mandate freely given to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu because it is the right thing to do,” another protester Sherifat Yusuf said. “We cannot sit down and allow them to rob us of a mandate that was freely given to Asiwaju.”

The protesters said they would make their demands regularly until Mr Tinubu is sworn in on May 29.

“Their silence is very loud at this sensitive period because people out there are thinking that something bad may happen to this new government,” Ms Yusuf said while on her way to the Unity Fountain venue of the rally. “We have to show support to Asiwaju until he is successfully sworn in as president to take our country to the next level.”

https://gazettengr.com/apc-supporters-protest-in-abuja-to-demand-congratulatory-messages-for-president-elect-tinubu/

We are patriots . We are brave.

If Pandora Obidîot and his Mauritanian extremist deputy keep inciting the public, we will lay both of them at Eagle Square and give them 24 strokes of koboko on their flat buttocks to reset their brain. It will be televised - facts.

no body want to be associated with stolen items

Is this real or just play?

G

Just dey play. APC urchins want to force congratulatory messages. Slavery is a mental disorder.

mployer:
Is this real or just play?

Just dey play

You really want to force US president to congratulate a rigger for rigging an election massively?

Just a few weeks ago, a Vienna based newspaper reported that Nigeria just elected a suspected drug trafficker as president. Even Bild-Zeitung had an embarrassing report about the so-called president elect.

If Tinubu is sworn in, and you are using Nigerian passport, get ready to get your ass screened in Airports around the world.

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PODATTI is coming

Na So
Every body fit protest

Haba

Really? What public nuisance. No sane person will legitimise the illegality of February 25th 2023. Stolen water no dey taste sweet una no want hears. Defenders of the operator's of criminal structures defending their criminality.

What is special about congratulatur y message ? Is it by force?

Any right thinking person that watched the presidential election collation live, should have no business congratulating or endorsing such a shambolic and flawed process. It beats my imagination to see that despite the firm stand of irregularities, varieties and discrepancies taken by opposing political parties from the very first state results announced by inec, the commission was defiant and hell bent on completing the proccess without addressing such concerns. And all the chairman had to say was 'seek legal redress at the election tribunal'. For me, that was the point where the colour of the flag became red, doubts over the credibility of the process became certain.

Clear conscious fears no accusation
The wicked flees even when no one chases him
Shows something is not right with the "mandate"

Let God arise and His enemies be scattered
Let God arise and His enemies be scattered
Let God arise and His enemies be scattered

"Let God; Let God; Arise "

This is my first time of seeing a newly elected president begging people for congratulations

Till this very day, NO REASONABLE individuals, groups or society has congratulate the thief called president elect.
INEC chairman and Buhari selected and make him Tinubu the winner of the election NOT Nigerians.
I mean SANE Nigerians

Imagine forcing a congratulatory message..
Wstjn we no go hear or see for this ApC people....

What other congratulations are Thief'nubu urchins expecting again..when MC Oluoma & his Gangs of agberos have congratulated with celebration...

Is Thief'nubu expecting sane Nigerians to congratulate a Mandate thief with a history of Narcotics... I don't think so urchinsons...

No sane individual can congratulate a drug lord.


Mumu people, na by force to congratulate person?

Kikiki... 😅😁😆😄

If you don't know, now you know.
Their eyes don dey clear, small small. But meanwhile, the NL APC crew are still in wonderland.

It shows how shameless, heartless, irresponsible and hypocritical these people supporting illegality and failures can be.

N3TRAL:

We are patriots . We are brave.

If Pandora Obidîot and his Mauritanian extremist deputy keep inciting the public, we will lay both of them at Eagle Square and give them 24 strokes of koboko on their flat buttocks to reset their brain. It will be televised - facts.

The script: a week to the inauguration, someone will file an injunction protesting the ceremony, on the grounds that it is unconstitutional because of his inability to score 25% in FCT. Two days to the inauguration, the court will grant the injunction. On the eve of the inauguration ceremony, the President will address the nation on the need to obey the court of law. After may 29th, an interim supervisory government will take effect. That will be the end of the Tinubu emi lokan dream.

A stolen bread is like gravels in the mouth - The book of Proverbs.
A stolen mandate is the same as gravels in the mouth of urchins. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Imagine a so called winner of a free and fair election begging for congratulations? 😁 Truely theives have no honor. 🦇

Peter Obi and Datti will reclaim our stolen mandate.
New Nigeria is POssible!

Tochi3:


What other congratulations are Thief'nubu urchins expecting again..when MC Oluoma & his Gangs of agberos have congratulated with celebration...

Is Thief'nubu expecting sane Nigerians to congratulate a Mandate thief with a history of Narcotics... I don't think so urchinsons...

😁😁😁😁
Congratulatory messages from Boko haram and fulani terrorist herdsmen is enough for mandate thieves. 😎

“They are refusing to congratulate him and that is why we keep seeing people coming with all manner of attacks on the president-elect,” Mr Raji said on Monday morning. “It is very wrong because he was elected by Nigerians in a free and fair campaign.”


On the bolded, Mr Raji or what which Nigerians voted the INEC president select in a free and fair election?

I won't be surprised if this is being done by PDP. If not, how does Joe Biden not sending a congratulatory message invalidate a Nigerian election??

Jessyjeff:
You really want to force US president to congratulate a rigger for rigging an election massively?

Just a few weeks ago, a Vienna based newspaper reported that Nigeria just elected a suspected drug trafficker as president. Even Bild-Zeitung had an embarrassing report about the so-called president elect.

If Tinubu is sworn in, and you are using Nigerian passport, get ready to get your ass screened in Airports around the world.

We are ready, it cant be worse than days of Jackal.

O

How can any sane individual or group congratulate a notorious Narcotic drug trafficker parading himself as a president elect with a stolen mandate.

They said you won election yet you are begging for congratulations. Isn't that funny?