Olusegun Obasanjo, the former president, has been warned by the federal government not to shorten the 2023 general elections in response to a recent letter he sent on the vote.
Lai Mohammed, the minister of information and culture, claimed in a statement released yesterday in Abuja that the former president’s sly “call for caution and rectification” was a plot to sabotage the election and a deliberate provocation to violence.
Meanwhile, even though Obasanjo pretended to be an objective and caring elder statesman, he is a well-known partisan who is determined to block the choice of millions of Nigerian voters by deception.
The minister expressed amazement and disbelief that a previous President could spread rumors and exaggerate irrational assertions made against the voting process.
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The assertion that the former President is the least qualified to advise a President whose steadfast effort to leave a legacy of free, fair, credible, and transparent elections is well acknowledged both inside and outside Nigeria because the former President’s administration may have organized the worst election since Nigeria’s return to democratic rule in 1999.
Instead, former President Obasanjo used his unsolicited letter to imply or perhaps wish for an unresolved election and the ensuing anarchy; he also used it to disparage election officials who are powerless to defend themselves, all the while secretly attempting to pass off his personal preference as the will of the people. This is dishonest.
Without making any attempt to discredit Obasanjo, he said: “Given that he openly sponsored a particular candidate, who, incidentally, is not winning the polls, as already announced by INEC, I feel that his intentions on the 2023 electoral process are far from being serious.
In his appeal, the retired general urged “all well-meaning Nigerians across political parties, tribes, and religion to rise and condemn any attempt by any persons of sinister motives, to create problems for our country, leading to the anarchy that could endanger peace, unity, and stability, and even cause the country to disintegrate.”
Nigeria is not a nation without laws. Elections must be conducted by the Constitution, which also contains mechanisms for reviewing irregularities. The legislation contains no provisions for the unilateral annulment or cancellation of election results. Such a course of action is completely incorrect, undemocratic, intolerable, and unlawful.
Nigerians must denounce Obasanjo’s unfair, indecent, undemocratic, and unpopular intervention in the ongoing election.
Source: The Guidance
