Lai Mohammed drops bombshell, reveals how Buhari's govt discredited negative narrative of rigging 2023 polls

• Former Information Minister Lai Mohammed has revealed the efforts by his bureau to antagonistic narratives alleging rigging successful the 2023 statesmanlike election
• Mohammed, who served nether ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, highlighted the strategical efforts his bureau undertook to code the misconceptions that Peter Obi won the poll
• He emphasised that the grounds presented to overseas media outlets showed the APC's nonaccomplishment successful strongholds and that absorption candidates did not conscionable law requirements

Legit.ng journalist Esther Odili has implicit 2 years of acquisition covering governmental parties and movements.

FCT, Abuja - Former Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has narrated however his bureau discredited the antagonistic communicative of rigging the 2023 statesmanlike election.

We engaged overseas media, says Lai Mohammed

Lai Mohammed speaks connected 2023 elections. Photo credit: PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP via Getty Images
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Mohammed made this revelation successful a insubstantial presented astatine a spokesperson acme declared unfastened connected Tuesday, April 15, successful Abuja by the incumbent Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris.

In a transcript of the presumption obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) connected Wednesday, April 16, the erstwhile curate recalled that conscionable earlier leaving bureau successful 2023, erstwhile President Muhammadu Buhari's authorities was faced with allegations of rigging the statesmanlike poll.

As reported by Vanguard, Lai Mohammed said the allegation was mostly centred astir the hold successful uploading results to the IReVportal which, according to him, played nary relation successful the authoritative collation of predetermination results.

According to Mohammed, the improvement was compounded by misplaced sentiments, fueled by sections of the planetary media that had relied connected questionable pre-election sentiment polls and societal media noise, suggesting that the Labour Party (LP) candidate, Peter Obi, had won the election.

How Buhari's govt countered 2023 predetermination rigging claims

Lai Mohammed speaks connected however Buhari's govt countered 2023 predetermination rigging claims. Photo credit: Muhammadu Buhari
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In correcting the antagonistic narrative, Lai Mohammed said his bureau opted for an evidence-based attack provided to some section and overseas media organisations and influential deliberation tanks.

“Our extremity was to contiguous them with irrefutable facts connected however the predetermination was won and lost.“We met with journalists and representatives from Voice of America, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy Magazine, Associated Press, BBC, The Economist, Reuters, Bloomberg, Politico, Hudson Institute, U.S. Institute of Peace, Atlantic Council, and Chatham House, among others.“To our surprise, galore of these organisations were unfamiliar with Nigeria’s law requirements for winning a statesmanlike election.“We explained that, nether Chapter 6, Section 134 of the Constitution, a campaigner indispensable not lone triumph the bulk of votes but besides unafraid astatine slightest 25% of the votes successful nary less than two-thirds of the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory,” helium said.

Mohammed added:

“Based connected this, we made it wide that neither the PDP nor LP candidates had a viable way to victory.“We presented the breakdown: the LP campaigner placed a distant third, trailing the APC campaigner by astir 2.7 cardinal votes.“The APC campaigner not lone won the highest fig of votes but besides secured 25 percent of the ballot successful 29 states – good supra the law threshold.”

To further dispel the allegations of rigging, the erstwhile curate said they laid retired compelling grounds that the APC mislaid successful cardinal states with precocious fig of registered voters – Lagos, Kaduna, Kano, and Katsina – adjacent though each had APC governors.

”If the APC had manipulated the process, wherefore would it suffer successful its ain strongholds?”

Mohammed said that with the attack and engagements, they were capable to efficaciously reshape the planetary narrative.

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Has Tinubu sacked Mahmood Yakubu? INEC yet reacts

Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that INEC has dismissed the claim that its chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has been sacked by President Bola Tinubu.

Rotimi Oyekanmi, the main property caput to Yakubu, successful a connection connected Monday, April 7, urged Nigerians to disregard the study and that it was not true.

There has been a assertion connected societal media that Tinubu has sacked Yakubu arsenic INEC president and replaced him with Professor Bashiru Olamikan.

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