The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday described the claim by the minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, that the opposition lost the election as another attempt by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal executive to bully and blackmail the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.
The party stated this while insisting that its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, won the February 25, 2023 Presidential election. It claimed the actual votes cast at the Polling Units across the country proves this.
The national publicity secretary of PDP, Hon Debo Ologunagba, who reacted to Mohammed’s comment said it came after President Muhammadu Buhari made similar subjudiced comment in his “widely condemned attempt to justify the rigging of the Presidential election, which case is pending before the Tribunal.”
Ologunagba in a statement said it is appalling that Lai Mohammed could attempt to defend the outcome of a “fraudulently conducted election which has been adjudged as the worst in the history of elections in Nigeria and which has attracted nationwide and international outrage against the Buhari administration.”
