The Pan Yoruba Socio-Political Group, Afenifere, has lambasted the Federal government for tainting facts about the credibility of the 2023 Presidential election and treason allegation.<\/p>\n
A statement by the groups Secretary General, Chief Sola Ebiseni, in Akure, the Ondo state capital, said that \u201cIt is more appalling that government officials unashamedly chose the foreign land for their macabre dance.<\/p>\n
Ebiseni said that \u201d Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information falls in this unenviable class with his current visits and interviews in the United States of America to taint sacred facts about the 2023 Presidential election.<\/p>\n
\u201d Whereas the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission in the glare of the whole world had admitted the failures of the statutorily prescribed components of the electoral process.<\/p>\n
\u201d Lai Mohammed falsely stated that \u201cthe just concluded general elections in Nigeria is the fairest, most transparent and authentic in the history of Nigeria,\u201d before an audience that knows the truth to the contrary and have so expressed in their editorials.<\/p>\n
The statement reads \u201d lt is certainly not true as Lai Mohammed claimed that \u201cunder our laws today, management of election results is manual\u201d, the ruling of\u00a0 the court \u201cthat INEC has the exclusive right to determine determine the mode of election, its collation and transmission\u201d only compels the Commission to act in tandem with its electoral guidelines to that effect.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe essence of the amending our elector laws resulting in the Electoral Act 2022 is the surgical removal of the mischief of managing our electoral process by\u00a0 the pernicious manual procedures.<\/p>\n
\u201d In a clear case of abuse of office, Lai Mohammed, trying desperately to dance himself back to the mind of his party candidate having taken a different course during the primaries, have mindlessly descended to the abyss of falsehood reminiscent of his modus operandi as party spokesperson with which he has odiously smeared the office of the nation\u2019s Minister of Information.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Minister lied when he claimed that \u201cthe President ensured that nobody used the security agencies to rig the election in his favour but created level-playing ground for the election\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201d The truth is that the security agencies in many states not only worked for the ruling party,\u00a0 government and its security arms watched in acquiescence as leaders of armed thugs boastfully threatened citizens with mayhem which they freely carried out as if we are in a state of nature.<\/p>\n
\u201cRather than tout the loss of the home states of some of his party\u2019s leaders to the opposition as proof of fair election, Lai Mohammed should have been courageous enough to ascribe the feat to the vigilance of the people and why they incurred the wrath of organised and armed hired thugs in the elections.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne wonders what is left for the courts to decide after the crude analysis by Lai Mohammed of the performance of the candidates, the figures of which he\u00a0 effortlessly and shamelessly bacterized.<\/p>\n
\u201d He ruled that \u201cObi and Atiku failed to meet the constitutional requirements to be declared president\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe crudely handed down judgment on the status of the FCT and lied against the constitution when he said \u201cnot only must a candidate have the plurality of votes, he must also have scored one-quarter of votes cast in at least 25 states\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201d He cheekily awarded figures to the candidates with 8.79 million and one-quarter in 29 states to the APC, 6.9 million and 21 states to PDP and 5.8 million and 15 states to the Labour Party which is contrary to the results declared by the INEC and even being hotly contested in court.<\/p>\n
\u201cLai Mohammed\u2019s disrespect for the courts before which those facts have been submitted for fair and independent adjudication is beyond the realm of contempt; it is treasonable because of his high office subjecting the courts to undue pressure of the opinion of the reasonable man to whom separation of powers and independence of the judiciary have no meaning having watched this government treat the judiciary, its judgments and orders with unmitigated disdain.<\/p>\n
\u201cTalking about treasonable comments, Lai Mohammed may need to rewind his own past statements particularly the interview he granted Sani Tukur of Premium Times on April 27, 2013 wherein he said \u201cDemocracy will fail in Nigeria unless APC wins in 2015\u201d. His principals did not fare better.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe threats and declaration of comments of members of the Opposition as treason by the Buhari administration is becoming most foreboding, ominous and tantamount to justifying its imminent clampdown.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is ridiculous that the same government that permissively watched leaders and spokespersons of the ruling party and their thugs openly execute their treasonable acts against the people and the democratic process in flagrant disrespect for the constitution would expect the decent world to take it serious in its shameful sanctimonious preaching on allegation of treason.<\/p>\n
\u201d In sum, it is clear that the burden of democracy where Nigerians, particularly the youths, have insisted that things be now done differently and rightly is too weighty for this government and its agents.<\/p>\n
Afenifere noted that \u201d Unfortunately, Lai Mohammed, in America, has chosen the wrong congregation for its antidemocratic sermons.<\/p>\n
The Pan Yoruba Socio-Political Group, Afenifere, has lambasted the Federal government for tainting facts about the credibility of the 2023 Presidential election and treason allegation. A statement by the groups…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"\n