The Federal government sent some admonishments to the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi. Lai Mohammed warned Obi against inciting people to violence over the outcome of the presidential election.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, gave the admonition in Washington, DC. Specifically, during his official engagements with some international media organizations on the just concluded 2023 elections, according to the News Agency of Nigeria.
So far, the minister has engaged the Washington Post, Voice of America, Associated Press, and Foreign Policy Magazine.
During the interactions with the media organisations, Mohammed said it was wrong for Obi on the one hand to seek redress in court over the outcome of the polls and on the other to incite people to violence.
According to Mohammed, Obi and his vice, Datti Ahmed, cannot be threatening Nigerians that if the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, of the All Progressives Congress, is sworn in on May 29, it will be the end of democracy in Nigeria. Furthermore, this is treason. You cannot invite insurrection, and this is what they are doing.
So, “Obi’s statement is that of a desperate person; he is not the democrat that he claimed to be.”
Lastly, the minister said challenging the election results was no pathway to victory. “A democrat should not believe in democracy only when he wins the election,” he said.