Senator representing Ekiti Central Senatorial district, Michael Opeyemi Bamidele on Tuesday said, the former President, Olusegun Obasanjo’s call on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to stop collation of election results is ill-motive.
In a statement by his Media Office which was sent to CAPITAL POST in Abuja, the lawmaker urged Nigerians to totally disregard Obasanjo’s posture, adding that such advice is anti-democratic.
Opeyemi was reacting to Obasanjo’s call on the electoral umpire to halt collation of
results of the just-concluded Presidential elections and the cancellation of the entire elections.
According to him, the former President’s claims were spurious, flimsy and unjustifiable excuse that the election is not credible.
Bamidele stressed that the sudden call on INEC to cancel the 2023 Presidential elections and halt the on-going collation of the election results by former President Obasanjo is a deliberate attempt to truncate Nigeria’s democracy.
He added that Obasanjo’s moves are an open invitation to anarchy and a devious assault on the collective civility and sensibility of the people of Nigeria who came out enmasse to exercise their franchise in fulfillment of their civic responsibilities on February 25th, 2023.
He said: “This is the same Obasanjo who publicly adopted Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party and urged Nigerians to vote for him.
“Unfortunately, Peter Obi lost woefully in the polling unit right in front of his (Obasanjo’s) house in Abeokuta. Apparently, Obasanjo is jittery because of the outcome of the election which invariably may not be in the favour of his adopted candidate. He is a bad loser ”
