Presidential Tribunal: EU report does not deserve my response – Festus Keyamo

Festus Keyamo, the former Minister of State for Labour and Employment, has launched a verbal attack against the European Union Election Observation Missions (EU-EOM) report. The report accused Keyamo of disseminating false information in the days leading up to the 2023 general election in Nigeria.

Keyamo dismissed the report, stating that it did not warrant a response as it was “presumptuous” and beyond the scope of the EU-EOM’s mandate.

It should be noted that the report had identified Keyamo, along with Femi Fani-Kayode, as individuals who spread fake news prior to the 2023 general elections.

In a statement posted on his verified Twitter account on Wednesday, the former minister also alleged that the EU-EOM report had exposed a deep-rooted bias in how the observers carried out their assigned tasks.

He wrote, “The part of the EU report that asserts that there was a single incident throughout the whole campaign where I retweeted a news item by a ‘suspicious website’ does not deserve my response because it is so presumptuous and outside their mandate and exposes a deep-seated bias about how the so-called observers went about their assignment. However, for the education of the gullible and unfortunate ones who are jubilating over such a poor report, I will say a word or two”.