Accept defeat, you lost woefully, FG tells Atiku, Obi

Mohammed said both Peter Obi of the Labour Party and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, lost the election due to overconfidence and complacency.

In a statement issued in Abuja by his Special Assistant on Media, Segun Adeyemi, the Minister said, the President’s analysis on the reasons for the opposition’s loss in the 2023 elections was undisputable.

He, however, stressed that the opposition’s overconfidence going into the election stemmed in part from the social media propaganda as well as faulty and procured opinion polls, which were apparently meant to hoodwink their foreign backers and a section of the international media into uncritically reporting that they were coasting home to victory when they were indeed heading into the ravine of defeat.

The minister further said the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, won the presidential election fair and square, clinching the majority of the votes cast and surpassing the constitutionally-stipulated twenty five per cent of votes cast in each of at least two-thirds of all the states in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory.