Obi, Atiku: No mandate to reclaim, By Kassim Afegbua

Talking about a mandate to reclaim makes me ponder whether there will be another presidential election before Buhari’s handover to be contested in due course; or perhaps, another INEC has been born that would organise a “Peter Obi-friendly” election, that would declare him winner to please him and his followers. Having run down INEC with all manner of foul language, some libellous and scandalous, others very profane and unguarded, I am wondering if Obi would accept another election contest under the INEC as its umpire. Having condemned INEC in such whimsical manner, derided its chairman with so much vile and bile, I am wondering if Peter Obi would accept the outcome of an election supervised by this same electoral umpire if the pendulum had swung in his favour. Nothing can be built on nothing. How can he blame an electoral umpire on the one hand and attempt to profit from an election also conducted by them on the other hand, and for which you already wrote them off and called them unprintable names. That is pure hypocrisy, self righteous indignation, another name for double standard. There is no mandate to claim anywhere. The mandate was freely and truly given to the rightful winner in line with the laws of the land. Obi and Atiku, need to search further for their own mandate, but if it was the election of 25 February we have since concluded that matter.