You know you lost the election, come down from your high horse – Keyamo tells Peter Obi

Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, received criticism from Minister of State for Employment, Festus Keyamo, after Obi expressed his concerns on Twitter regarding a phone conversation between the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, and President-elect, Bola Tinubu.

Obi suggested that since the outcome of the 2023 presidential election is being contested in court, the US should wait for the resolution of the judicial processes before appearing to confer legitimacy on any of the contending parties. He emphasized the importance of mutual respect and unbiased responses from the United States in relation to political developments in Nigeria.

In response, Keyamo dismissed Obi’s comments and argued that Blinken’s engagement with Tinubu indicates that the international community does not take Obi’s claims seriously. Keyamo asserted that Obi should face reality and stop deceiving his supporters, as it is widely recognized that he lost the election.

‘’Your Excellency, Mr. Peter Obi, I am sorry, but there is clarity as to the basis of the U.S. Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken’s call to

@officialABAT and their pledge for support and cooperation. It’s obvious that you and your supporters have overrated your noise and tantrums after the election as having any real effect internationally. No, they have not had any such massive effect as you would wish.

Unfortunately for you, the US have dealt with so many opposition figures around the world and they know exactly how to separate facts from fictions. They know you lost, fair and square. They know that in a complex society like Nigeria you could not have won with your message of ‘religious war’. They know you’re just a splinter of the main opposition, the PDP, so it amounts to delusions of grandeur to think that you won when you actually came third.

They also know the declaration of a winner already announced by INEC has the force of law and is the only acceptable legal framework upon which to proceed than your Petition in court that is yet to be decided upon. You really want this country to stand still because you have a case in court? Is that what we have practiced in this country for decades?

Recall, sir, that when you won your second term in office as Governor of Anambra State, your opponents were in the Tribunal when you were sworn in and you got congratulatory messages from across Nigeria and the world. Did you reject those congratulatory messages because your opponents were in court? Why are you  now misleading these largely hapless mob trooping blindly after you? Why?

As you are going about with this pretentious holier-than-thou attitude, a court of law just nullified the nomination of a number of your Party’s candidates at the last election. Are you not more worried about this development, even as it affects your own nomination as the Labour Party’s Presidential candidate?

Mr. Peter Obi, your pontifications about the last Presidential election are getting very worrisome. They are beneath you. They are designed only to appeal to the mob. You know you lost the election; we know you know; and you know we know that you know.

Please, come down from your high horse.”