Polls: FG, Akinrinade fire OBJ over letter to Buhari

 The Federal Government yesterday warned former President Olusegun Obasanjo against truncating the 2023 general elections with his inciting, self-serving and provocative letter on the polls.

This is even as former Chief of Army Staff, General Alani Akinirinade, also yesterday described Obasanjo as a present danger to the nation’s democracy by his utterances.

Recall that the former President had on Monday, called for the suspension of the announcement of results of the presidential election, following the irregularities that trailed it, and asked President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene.

But the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, who gave the warning, said what the former President cunningly framed as an ‘appeal for caution and rectification’ was nothing but a calculated attempt to undermine the electoral process and a willful incitement to violence.

The minister in statement signed by the Special Assistant to the President (Media), Office of the Minister of Information and Culture, Segun Adeyemi, “expressed shock and disbelief that a former President could throw around unverified claims and amplify wild allegations picked up from the street against the electoral process”.

He recalled how the former President, in his time, organized “perhaps the worst election since Nigeria’s return to democratic rule in 1999”, adding that Obasanjo is the least qualified to advise a President whose determined efforts to leave a legacy of free, fair, credible and transparent election is well acknowledged within and outside Nigeria.

"As the whole, the nation waits with bated breath the result of last Saturday’s national elections, amid unnecessary tension created by professional complainants and political jesters.

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