FG To Opposition: Quit Griping Over Election You Lost Hands Down

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has advised the opposition to stop their endless griping over the 2023 presidential election which they lost woefully, saying they know very well that they deserve to lose the election because of their overconfidence and complacency.

In a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday, the Minister said Mr. President's analysis on the reasons for the opposition's loss in the 2023 elections was incontrovertible.

He said the President deserves nothing but accolades for delivering undoubtedly the best election in Nigeria's history, adding that the tempestuous but predictable reaction to the President's comments by the opposition has shown them for what they are: shameless sore losers.

''President Muhammadu Buhari lived up to his billing by delivering a free, fair and credible election, and his legacy is assured. The President would rather lose his state and many of his party's strongholds than tamper with the fidelity of the election, and that is why he provided a level playing field for all parties,'' Alhaji Mohammed said.

He said the opposition's overconfidence going into the election stemmed in part from the blitzkrieg of social media propaganda as well as faulty and procured opinion polls, which were apparently meant to hoodwink their foreign backers and a section of the international media into uncritically reporting that they were coasting home to victory, when they were indeed heading into the ravine of defeat.

The Minister said the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, won the presidential election fair and square, clinching the majority of the votes cast and surpassing the constitutionally-stipulated 25% of votes cast in each of at least two-thirds of all the states in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory.

''Going by the results, none of the opposition parties met any of the conditions stipulated for winning the presidential election. They didn't even come close, in spite of their pre-election grandstanding.

''They (opposition) keep leaning on some international observers to justify their fraudulent claim that the election was rigged. They conveniently forgot what Ambassador Johnnie Carson, the revered US diplomat who co-led the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and International Republican Institute (IRI) International Election Observation Mission to Nigeria said: that the APC candidate undoubtedly won the polls.

''They also forgot that the African Union Election Observation Mission to Nigeria said the atmosphere was generally calm and peaceful in 95% of the polling units visited,'' he said, adding that it is on the strength of these reports that many nations, including the US and the UK, wasted no time in congratulating the victorious APC Presidential Candidate.

Alhaji Mohammed slammed the opposition for continuously seeking to mislead the world by clutching at the weak straw that results were not immediately uploaded onto the IReV Portal, as if the portal has any role to play in the collation of results.

''The opposition's insinuation that the failure to immediately upload the result of the presidential election onto IReV affected the credibility of the election is a fraud. It is an act of blackmail and deceit by desperate individuals.

''The opposition Labour Party, in particular, will go down in the history books as the first-ever distant third-place finisher in a presidential election anywhere to have bold-facedly claimed victory,'' he said.

Segun Adeyemi
Special Assistant to the President (Media)
Office of the Minister of information and Culture
Abuja
30 April 2023

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This is expected from the APC federal government

Peter obi the legend of men

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Baba Lai don finish obi patapata without making any sound..


Abeg, Go check Nigerian history book..Na obi carry third.

Lai Mohammed a government official making such statement should know that it amounts sub judice because the matter is already in court.

The best way tinubu can have a legitimate government is to prove in court that he won the elections. it is the rights of the contestants to explore.

The 2023 election is different from 2015 where Jonathan accepted the results even though there were lapses , that doesn't mean Peter Obi must accept the present sham and until the courts preside he is illegitimate.

Do they need vuvuzela to hear that.

2023 election is the less rigged election in Nigeria since 1999. Yes less rigged cos the candidates couldn't secure above million votes in their strong hold which indicated there are improvements even though INEC can do better.

Election was rigged by all the top candidates just that the highest rigger won.

SC decision is just formality, Tinubu will govern Nigeria for the next 4 years

Repeating same gibberish won’t make it true ..

If Apc want make them sustain the propaganda with all muscle .. it will only fly among the Yoruba Apc

So it’s nothing

Guess this is the 12rh time lai is making this statement and it hasn’t change anything

Apc understands the fight ahead and the very need of sustained propaganda

And they’re pushing on all fronts .. with failure meeting them on all fronts ..

Someone must be tired by now.. and allow Nigerians be.

We know that's why the mater dey court...

Tinubu won because PDP was divided into 4 factions

Now, if the court rules against Tinubu, I am ready to eat my words, with pleasure, because it is high time we should have gotten rid of APC, but as things stand now,APC did win this election fair and square.

You can call me Tinubu supporter. I am not, and never will be. But the fact is, if the votes for LP, PDP and NNPP had gone to one party, APC would have been crying, and Tinubu would have retired to go and sort himself out.

My problem with Nigerians when it comes to politics , and indeed Africans, is that when it is time to get ready for election, the opposition is divided. In 2003, all the oppostion forces should have been united against PDP, instead we had ANPP and APGA then with their own show, and AD suddenly decided that Obasanjo was godsent...

In 2011, the same thing. Buhari wrecked ANPP, Tinubu backed GEJ behind his party and his party candidate's back, and APGA was at sea....

But when you tell Nigerians this truth, they will abuse you.

Obi did well, much better than expected. But at the end of the day, he lost because he did not get enough of the states he needed.

We can be lying to ourselves that Tinubu rigged the election....or we can face facts and do what Buhari did, after twelve years of lying to himself that Nigerians wanted him...form alliances, and get ready for 2027, or APC will win again, and where would we be?

Anyone who thinks otherwise is deluded.

This is no longer news


Obi is a mandate thief and obidients must wail. Una go cry tire for mandate. Walahi your tears are delicious

This election remains the best election ever in Nigeria.
The election results are on portal for everyone to see, since February whey dem upload result, obi never see his mandate and still unable to proof where he has his votes

That dense Peter Obi was busy lamenting all over that he won the election, overconfidence is really taking a toll on him.

Okay, you claimed to won the election, go to court to recover your mandate.

Baba dunce go court, instead of telling court how he won the election, the daft old man was busy, saying.

Tinubu is not qualified for president
Tinubu was once a drug dealer
And series of daft accusations.

And his dense followers were busy whining and lamenting over unnecessary mandate.

Oga,if you actually won the election bring proof and stop embarrassing yourself.

Who is the FG?

The APC is the FG, the FG is the court, the FG is INEC..

So the court, Inec and FG are all APC!

Tinubu stood a very high chance of winning, but I would have preferred him to win the elections on a clean slate.

Saying that this was the best elections Nigeria has ever had is like adding salt to our injuries.

Finally, if you're still hoping for the courts to declare any other candidate winner and they assume office and Nigeria to get better, you're on along thing.


Tinubu would complete his 8 years and probably hand over to Shetima who would also run for 8 years.

16 years is such a long time to be wailing ans praying for a failed project.

Move on! Do something better for yourself. Start a business... Relocate abroad. Just do something good for yourself rather than waste energy on what you can't change.

The headline is confusing. Next time say Lai Mohammed and not FG.

Ipob terrorists come and wail as usual

Modify the headline to Lai Mohammed and not FG... useless information...it is not I their hands to tell us who the rightful winner of the election is...

Even though I'm am Obident, I'll have to agree with the FG on this one. States where Peter Obi was predicted to win were all won aside Rivers and Cross River State. So even if they add those two states, it still wouldn't make him win.

Peter Obi's victory was literally tied to Atiku's ability to dominate the core north and Kwankwaso following closely. When Tinubu started penetrating the North, I knew it was over for Peter Obi.

Even if the court rules that there should be a re-run between Peter Obi and Tinubu, Obi would loose woefully cos the core north would rally round Tinubu and give him their support.

Isn't that the duty of tribunal to say.. What is FG insistence that Amoda the inec president select won fair & square? I don't get it except they need to tell us what they know, we don't know of

Presidency now the mouth piece of Tinubu.

nairalanda1:
Tinubu won because PDP was divided into 4 factions

That's logical but it's unfortunate that same statement is illogical to the oppositions

APC not FG said this!! 🤣🤣😘 APC is the incumbent so they are using words to try to drive their criminal propaganda.
Which one is FG?! 🤣🤣 Are all government officials APC members ? Stupid people 🤣🤣🤣

They believe that if you tell a lie over and again, people may begin to believe the lie and take it as truth.

Are they quick to forget

How inec presiding officers where told to come to inec centers to manually upload mutilated results sheets

Can we forget how results sheets from polling units where different from what was uploaded

How they claimed they had over 1m cyber attacks which did not affect senatorial and house of rep elections but only targeted the presidential elections

How they forgotten how corrupt security personnel colluded with inec staff and area boys to disenfranchise willing votes

It was so bad that they had to announce the selected winner when the country was sleeping.....do you remember the unease calm the next day

FG interfering with elections since 1960. I thought elections are meant to be independent and neutral

Lie Muhammed should ignore the idiots and nincompoops nah. Somebody that got near zero votes in North West and North East is claiming he won national election. Now I know why he graduated with a 3rd Class. Simple Arithmetic is difficult for him

The court will determine who truly won

Na so

Pigs... should go and rest in peace

Shikena

Haha
But Check out this set

They had said Jibrin was Sudanese 
That Jibrin was Buhari
They also said real Buhari is dead

Well, Buhari will hand over soon. 

They also said Buhari will impose himself 
They said something about Amoda Ogunlere
They are now claiming Amoda wasn't consequential anymore, that President-Elect was rigged in. 

I'm amazingly horrified by their delusion about may 29, they seem too obsessed. I don't know how this 3rd person will become first and somehow worked in, It is confusing, Maybe to me. However if you ask this set that how will they work things up? Oh, that's when you'll sign up for an entertaining gibberish. 

We should all have a life off social media, where we should be putting things in place for our businesses in line with this next administration. 

Nairaland.com users, stop living in denial, May 29 will come and go, now get used to that. 

Check out the gibberish you've been fed, do they matter now? 
If this matter is in court, leave it there, start lining up with Tinubu's administration. You know why?