Presidential election: FG accuses Peter Obi of treason

MINISTER of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has accused Peter Obi of inciting insurrection in the country over the outcome of the just concluded presidential election.

The minister described Obi’s alleged action as “treason”.

Mohammed spoke during an official engagement with some international media organisations in Washington, DC, the United States.

Speaking on the polls, Mohammed said his visit was to balance the skewed narratives and “to tell the world unambiguously that the just concluded general elections in Nigeria are the fairest”.

He described Peter Obi as desperate and undemocratic.

“Obi and his vice, Datti Ahmed, cannot threaten Nigerians that if the President-elect, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is sworn in on May 29, it will be the end of democracy in Nigeria. This is treason. You cannot be inviting insurrection, and this is what they are doing.

“The Constitution has stringent criteria for anybody who wants to be President of the country.

“Only the President-elect met the criteria by scoring 8.79 million votes and having one-quarter of all the votes cast in 29 states of the federation.

“You cannot win an election in a poll where you came to a distant third position and failed to meet constitutional requirements,” the minister said.

The minister also said a victory for either Obi or Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in their challenge of the election results is impossible.

He noted that they both failed to meet the constitutional requirements to be declared as President.