Lai Mohammed tells Atiku, PDP, to apologise to Nigerians

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Thursday, asked the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate in the last elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to apologise to Nigerians for what he described as distraction of the Buhari Administration with a frivolous election petition.

Mohammed who was reacting to the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal judgement, said Atiku and PDP should resign to faith and tender apologies to Nigerians rather that appealing the ruling.

In a statement issued in St Petersburg, Russian Federation, on Thursday, the Minister said while the PDP and its candidate reserve the right to pursue their petition to the highest level, they will be better served by dropping their toga of desperation and realising that there is a limit to tomfoolery.

”Nigerians are tired of this orchestrated distraction, and will rather wish that the opposition, having lost at the polls and in court, will now join hands with the government to move Nigeria to the next level.

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”This is more so that the judgement validating the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari was unanimous that the petition lacked merit, that the petitioners failed to prove any of the grounds upon which their case was anchored and that President Buhari is eminently qualified to contest the poll,” he said.

Alhaji Mohammed added that instead of casting aspersion on the judiciary with their poorly-framed reaction to the ruling of the Tribunal, the PDP and its candidate should be thanking their stars that they are not being prosecuted for coming to court with fraudulently-obtained evidence.

”It is intriguing that a party that trumpets the rule of law at every turn will present, in open court, evidence it claimed to have obtained by hacking into a supposed INEC server. Don’t they realize this is a criminal act for which they are liable? Instead of threatening to head to the Supreme Court, driven more by ego than commonsense, they should be sorry for allowing desperation to overwhelm their sense of reasoning. Enough is enough,” he said.

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