FG accuses Peter Obi, Datti of inciting violence following presidential election polls

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has accused the Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi of inciting the public following the results of the presidential election.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the minister is in Washington to engage with international media organizations and Think-tanks on the just concluded 2023 polls

The minister said it was wrong for Obi on one breadth to seek redress in court over the outcome of the polls and on another breadth incite people to violence.

He said; “Obi and his Vice, Datti Ahmed cannot be threatening Nigerians that if the President-elect, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is sworn in on May 29, it will be the end of democracy in Nigeria. This is treason. You cannot be inviting insurrection, and this is what they are doing.

”Obi’s statement is that of a desperate person, he is not the democrat that he claimed to be.

“A democrat should not believe in democracy only when he wins the election,” he said.

“The constitution has stringent criteria for anybody who wants to be president of the country.

“Not only must he has the plurality of vote cast in an election, he must also have scored one-quarter of votes cast in at least 25 states.

“Only the President-elect met the criteria by scoring 8.79 million votes and having one-quarter of all the vote cast in 29 states of the federation,” he said.

”You cannot win an election in a poll where you came to a distant third position and failed to meet constitutional requirements.

‘Peter Obi, while complaining of fraud has not disowned his victory in Lagos,” he said.