₦airaland Forum

Atiku Hails US Senator, Media Over Stance On Nigeria’s Presidential Election

Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has hailed a ranking member of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Jim Risch, for pointing out the fact that Nigeria’s recently concluded presidential election was fraught with irregularities.

He also hailed Risch for criticising the US government over its decision to hurriedly embrace Bola Tinubu as president-elect despite damning reports from election observers.

Senator Risch had said, “The ongoing electoral process in Nigeria is widely viewed as deeply flawed by election observers and many Nigerians. It is disappointing to see the administration rush to embrace the result, while the full picture of what occurred during this electoral process is yet to be seen.

“I’ve expressed similar concerns related to other areas of our relationship with the Nigerian government. I worry this rush to judgement will undermine our ability to be an effective partner to all Nigerians, especially given their longstanding desire for democracy.”

Responding in a statement on Saturday, Atiku through his Special Assistant on Public Communication, Mr. Phrank Shaibu, said posterity would be kind to Senator Risch for siding with the people of Nigeria even against the US government.

Atiku said, “Senator Risch’s name will be etched in the minds of Nigerians forever. Posterity will be kind to him for speaking up at this crucial point in history. His action is reminiscent of the late US Ambassador, Walter Carrington, who acted as an activist, insisting on the June 12 mandate from 1993 till 1997 during the repressive regime of General Sani Abacha.

“Senator Risch has confirmed what objective observers revealed. And that is that the 2023 presidential election in Nigeria was a sham, a usurpation of the will of the people and a stain on the history of Nigeria.”

The PDP presidential candidate also commended The Guardian Newspaper of London, the Financial Times of London, and a Nigerian newspaper for their strongly worded editorials, where they described in detail what really happened in the February 25 election.

Atiku’s aide noted that the Financial Times in its editorial titled, ‘Nigeria’s Badly Flawed Election Fails to Set an Example’ dismissed the poll for the sham that it was.

“What Nigeria needed above all was a clean election to reiterate the basic message of democracy: that a sovereign people can choose its leaders. Sadly, it did not happen. The election – which appears to have delivered the Presidency to Bola Tinubu, a wealthy political fixer running for the incumbent All Progressives Congress – was badly managed at best. It failed to set the example needed for West Africa,” The Financial Times stated.

It added, “INEC badly misfired. Voting started late in many districts, depriving millions of the right to vote. The system to upload the results from 177,000 polling stations stuttered, causing legitimate concerns of vote tampering during long delays. Violence was troubling. Party goons invaded many polling stations in what appeared to be blatant acts of intimidation. The Financial Times witnessed armed men remove a presidential ballot box in Surulere, Lagos.”

He also commended The PUNCH for its scathing editorial, where it described in graphic detail how thugs acting on the instruction of the APC used violence to intimidate voters in Lagos.

The PUNCH particularly stated, “In Ikate, Lagos, gunmen invaded a centre, scattered the voting materials, causing voters to flee. The soldiers nearby saved the day. There was also violence in Oshodi and Okota, compounded by the late arrival of materials in polling centres, which was reportedly instigated by a faction of the road transport union that refused to move materials. Thugs threatened those who refused to vote for the All Progressives Congress in Shitta, Surulere, Lagos.”

Atiku argued that the crown that Tinubu was wearing was stained with the blood of innocent Nigerians who were bold enough to resist the APC on the day of the election.

He added, “Tinubu’s pyrrhic victory will be short-lived. The stolen crown balances on his head precariously. He will continue to shake until he drops it. It is funny that Lagos was the fulcrum of Tinubu’s campaign as he promised to replicate the miracle of Lagos across Nigeria, and yet the people of Lagos rejected him on the day of election.

“Tinubu lost in Ikeja local government where he had voted and also lost in Bourdillon, Ikoyi where he lives. Rather than accept the will of the people, he unleashed thugs on the people he claimed to love. Jennifer Efidi Bima was hit in the face by Tinubu’s hounds in Surulere. Her blood-stained ballot paper is a testament to the resolve of the people as he still lost in Lagos despite the violence.

“Ahead of the governorship election, Tinubu will once again relocate to Lagos, where he will try to unleash violence on the people in order to ensure that his puppet, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, is re-elected. Nigerians must rise up against such tyranny.”

https://leadership.ng/atiku-hails-us-senator-media-over-stance-on-nigerias-presidential-election/


Nlfpmod

Tinubu won't rule Nigeria with a stolen mandate

Donald Trump said the elections in USA were flawed.

Atiku is part of the problem.
In PDP supposed strongholds , same Atiku and his boys rigged and reduced Peter obi vote numbers while Jagaban was doing his own elsewhere.

The plan and execution was two pronged; first block Obi from getting a majority vote to forestall a rerun election and secondly reduce his votes in many states so he can't make the statutory 25% spread in 24 states.

Observed

Tinubu and his urchins don't know what will hit them. Time will tell

LP party rigged the most in this election. Let's keep our fingers crossed and watch things unfold.

Is it not in ebonyi they ran off with ballot papers?

Is it not in d east some women singing and thumb printing LP without bvas.?

Is not in east an elderly man was threatened for voting APC (nearly lynched)

Is it not in east Okeke Cynthia rigged for her pooling unit?

Is it not in the east two men were killed during the election?

Is it not in the south east election underage children were allowed to vote for Peter Obi?

Several more LP riggings will be unravel soon.

Mahmood Yakubu will end up reversing the results in favour of Obi as the rightful winner of the election at the end of the day.

Poster4:
Atiku should know that the US took that stance because of Obi, not because of him.

Dedeity:
Tinubu and his urchins don't know what will hit them. Time will tell

We know it. Tinubu will be Sworn in as the Nigerian president he will rule the east all your eastern institutions will hang his photographs on their walls.

Mraphel:
LP party rigged the most in this election. Let's keep our fingers crossed and watch things unfold.

Is it not in ebonyi they ran off with ballot papers?

Is it not in d east some women singing and thumb printing LP without bvas.

Is not in east an elderly man was threatened for voting APC.

Is it not in the was Okeke Cynthia rigged for a pooling unit

Is it not in the east two people were killed during the election?

Several more will be unravel soon.

Peter obi didn't need to rig in Ebonyi or any south east state. You know the truth. Embrace the truth

Mraphel:
LP party rigged the most in this election. Let's keep our fingers crossed and watch things unfold.

Is it not in ebonyi they ran off with ballot papers?

Is it not in d east some women singing and thumb printing LP without bvas.

Is not in east an elderly man was threatened for voting APC.

Is it not in east Okeke Cynthia rigged for a pooling unit

Is it not in the east two men were killed during the election?

Several more will be unravel soon.

Devils advocate.

SWATMan:
Devils advocate.

You hate the truth.

Why not dispute his claims?

Mraphel:
LP party rigged the most in this election. Let's keep our fingers crossed and watch things unfold.

Is it not in ebonyi they ran off with ballot papers?

Is it not in d east some women singing and thumb printing LP without bvas.

Is not in east an elderly man was threatened for voting APC.

Is it not in east Okeke Cynthia rigged for a pooling unit

Is it not in the east two men were killed during the election?

Several more will be unravel soon.

That’s why we want APC to agree to LP’s prayer that the entire election should be annulled because it was fraught with irregularities.

We want INEC to redo the election nationwide. Only that this time they should deploy Electoral Materials to every polling units in the Southeast and transmit from every polling unit in the country to the IREV so that you people can catch Labour Party’s ‘rigging’.

Deal💁?

Mraphel:
We know it. Tinubu will be Sworn in as the Nigerian president he will rule the east all your eastern institutions will hang his photographs on the wall.

Agbado boy, Tinubu will never rule Nigeria so stop dreaming.

The US senator know that what Nigerians experienced on the 25th of February can best be described as an electoral heist and the beneficiary is a Notorious Narcotic drug trafficker the state of Chicago has ever known

You conducted an election, declared a winner but only the person you declared as the winner, his family and a few brainwashed urchins are rejoicing. Is that one an election?
So who are the people that voted for you?

If they ask the senile old man to give a speech, he will be saying bulabla balabloo. #notmypresident

Poster4:
Atiku should know that the US took that stance because of Obi, not because of him.

Haha leave am make him dey Play na
Them see rigging wey shock their own rigging to death their mumu Chairman se "No this rigging has gone beyond control"
Rigging wey make Okowa nearly faint

politician should knowledge that the US gave that stance because of politician , not because of him

Atiku was really disgraced in the last election. An old fool indeed

Worst election in the history of Nigeria.

A Cameronian friend asked me yesterday, why did Nigerians elected drug dealer and criminal as president? I responded that Tinubu was not elected by the people, he was selected by corrupt, criminal and fraudulent electoral system.

Nigeria is better than this.

Religion nor help this matter because, I wondered how someone who pray five times a day will conclude an election like this and not fear God but sleep with his two eyes closed..

Atiku ti Lule

I felt the headline should have been “Atiku hails his contacts in US for supporting his views on the last elections”

Rubbish……..

ejifranks:
Atiku is part of the problem.
In PDP supposed strongholds , same Atiku and his boys rigged and reduced Peter obi vote numbers while Jagaban was doing his own elsewhere.

The plan and execution was two pronged; first block Obi from getting a majority vote to forestall a rerun election and secondly reduce his votes in many states so he can't make the statutory 25% spread in 24 states.

So only obi did not rig? Do you make sense to yourself?

Atiku na man you be

Dedeity:
Tinubu and his urchins don't know what will hit them. Time will tell

cry from now till next year, nothing will happen

Islie:
Atiku Hails US Senator, Media Over Stance On Nigeria’s Presidential Election



https://leadership.ng/atiku-hails-us-senator-media-over-stance-on-nigerias-presidential-election/


Nlfpmod

See the level Atiku has been pushed to. A one time shinning light of mainstream politics, a political figure, a political juggernaut, a former household name has suddenly become a struggling opposition.

Totilopussylick:
Tinubu won't rule Nigeria with a stolen mandate

Tell US to come and conduct the election for us. Mumu.

Atiku will hang Tinubu picture in his offices from 29th May.