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The Federal Government has onished the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, not to incite people to violence over the outcome of the Presidential election.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, gave the onition in Washington DC during his official engagements with some international media organisations.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the minister is in Washington to engage with international media organisations and Think-tanks on the just concluded 2023 polls

NAN also reports that the minister had so far engaged respectively with the “Washington Post”, Voice of America, Associated Press and Foreign Policy Magazine.

During the respective interactions with the media organisations, the minister said it was wrong for Obi on one breadth to seek redress in court over the outcome of the polls and on another breadth inciting people to violence.

“Obi and his Vice, Datti Ahmed cannot be threatening 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.

“Obi’s statement is that of a desperate person, he is not the democrat that he claimed to be.

“A democrat should not believe in democracy only when he wins the election,” he said.

The minister said in challenging the election results, there was no pathway to victory for either Obi or Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

According to the minister, neither Obi nor Atiku met the constitutional requirements to be declared as president.

“The constitution has stringent criteria for anybody who wants to be president of the country.

“Not only must he has the plurality of vote cast in an election, he must also have scored one-quarter of votes cast in at least 25 states.

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

The minister said Atiku who came second with 6.9 million votes was only able to make one-quarter of the votes cast in 21 states.

He said Obi came third with 5.8 million votes but won only one-quarter of votes cast in 15 states.

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

“Peter Obi, while complaining of fraud has not disowned his victory in Lagos,” he said.

https://dailytrust.com/just-in-fg-accuses-peter-obi-of-treason/

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Point of correction, APC accused Peter Obi, not FG.

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This intimidation has to stop

Long overdue , in a saner clime he will be behind bars.

I don't want to believe such words came from the federal government of Nigeria, as fake news flies everywhere these days.
Probably it is one of tinubu's boys talking.

But if this truly came from the federal government, it is a sad day for democracy in Nigeria.

No to all form of distractions.

Obidients, eyes on the judiciary. These are the issues on ground.

1. Bola tinubu's drug case and $460,000 USD forfeiture.
2. 25% in FCT.
3. Forged certificate.
4. INEC breaking her laws .
5. Shettima's double nomination.
6. Election rigging.

Eyes on the ball. Ignore distraction and distractors .

Lol but Obi hasn't said anything inciting na unlike some prominent APC bigwigs and otimkpu hangers ons. Proof is in the public domain so they should arrest Obi if that is their problem

W

Na even lie Mohammed

SadiqBabaSani:
Mad men want to burn the con3, they will alws think nothing dey sup untill things go beyond control.


instead of them to focus on Atiku who has been frolicking with top military brass mumu men are busy chasing Obi.


It makes more sense to say now that he won the election

They are scared of Obi's intellectual intelligence to communicate with the people.

IyaebeTheGreat:
Long overdue , in a saner clime he will be behind bars.

behind bars for what exactly? In saner climes, Tinubu and Yakubu should be sentenced to life imprisonment for drug trafficking and corruption respectively.

FG dey play.
What nonsense and arrogant? What treason? The fear of Obi is the beginning of Wisdom.

They are joking. Nigerian are watching.

Arresting PO is like playing with fire

Omooba77:

The Federal Government has onished the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, not to incite people to violence over the outcome of the Presidential election.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, gave the onition in Washington DC during his official engagements with some international media organisations.


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The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the minister is in Washington to engage with international media organisations and Think-tanks on the just concluded 2023 polls

NAN also reports that the minister had so far engaged respectively with the “Washington Post”, Voice of America, Associated Press and Foreign Policy Magazine.


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During the respective interactions with the media organisations, the minister said it was wrong for Obi on one breadth to seek redress in court over the outcome of the polls and on another breadth inciting people to violence.

“Obi and his Vice, Datti Ahmed cannot be threatening 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.

“Obi’s statement is that of a desperate person, he is not the democrat that he claimed to be.

“A democrat should not believe in democracy only when he wins the election,” he said.

The minister said in challenging the election results, there was no pathway to victory for either Obi or Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

According to the minister, neither Obi nor Atiku met the constitutional requirements to be declared as president.

“The constitution has stringent criteria for anybody who wants to be president of the country.

“Not only must he has the plurality of vote cast in an election, he must also have scored one-quarter of votes cast in at least 25 states.

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

The minister said Atiku who came second with 6.9 million votes was only able to make one-quarter of the votes cast in 21 states.

He said Obi came third with 5.8 million votes but won only one-quarter of votes cast in 15 states.

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

“Peter Obi, while complaining of fraud has not disowned his victory in Lagos,” he said.

https://dailytrust.com/just-in-fg-accuses-peter-obi-of-treason/

Dey play, just dey play.

Betanaija42moro:
They are joking. Nigerian are watching.

Arresting PO is like playing with fire

MAKE DEM TRY AM?
Abeggggi PEJURY case loading. . . . .
Don't distract us please.

Beremx:
behind bars for what exactly? In saner climes, Tinubu and Yakubu should be sentenced to life imprisonment for drug trafficking and corruption respectively.

Going by your assertion, it means all Nigeria politicians will be behind bars and obi taking the lead.

Massiveglory:
I don't want to believe such words came from the federal government of Nigeria, as fake news flies everywhere these days.

But if this truly came from the federal government, it is a sad day for democracy in Nigeria.

No to all form of distractions.

Obidients, eyes on the judiciary. These are the issues on ground.

1. Bola tinubu's drug case and $460,000 USD forfeiture.
2. 25% in FCT.
3. Forged certificate.
4. INEC breaking her laws .
5. Shettima's double nomination.
6. Election rigging.

Eyes on the ball. Ignore distraction and distract.

1. Bola tinubu's drug case and $460,000 USD forfeiture. - This has been dealt with severally in law and it will end in defeat for the LP
2. 25% in FCT. - This cannot stand the test of time. It is a loss for the LP
3. Forged certificate. - This should be followed through to the conclusion. But as it is a pre-election case, it may be technically set aside
4. INEC breaking her laws - This is dead on arrival. No impact on the declared result. INEC may be asked to follow the rules to the letter in future or there is a need to draft another ELECTORAL LAW to bridge the lacuna observed in the existing law
5. Shettima's double nomination. - This is 'no case' as the two forms were submitted on the same day. The issue of dates does not have much effect on the law in this case. The contract for the exchange of mandate was submitted to, acknowledged, and signed by INEC same day. No one runs foul of any law. You can sign a divorce letter and get married on the same day. Nothing negates the other, so far the processes are followed through.
6. Election rigging. - THIS IS WHERE THE LP SHOULD CONCENTRATE ITS FOCUS. Let the Party show proof that there was indeed RIGGING and her mandate STOLEN. Then, it can easily retrieve its mandate

OTHERWISE, Let LP say "Otilo"

Lai Mohammed is a joker.

lol
make una toucham make we see wetin go remain
nonsense clowns

buhari threatened hail and storm and many corpers died cause of him, he was not arrested
ameachi threatened parrallel govt, but was not arrested
but its peter obi una dey say na treason. u will all learn no one owns this country, we dare you filthy red sand clowns to touch him

Nawa

Well said lai

Obi and his gang of yes daddy terrorists deserve to be arrested

I concur.

That pathological liar and religious warrior should be sent to Kuje prison.

He should be made to answer YES DADDY in the court of law.

lol

They have selected their candidate, why can't they leave the Peter Obi of a man alone??

And what stops him or the government from going to court

The people that can't stop talking about Obi every now and then, the people that said they will declare a parelle government just yesterday which is a far more treasonable talk.

Or they have forgotten about Bubu's dog's and baboon statement?