The federal government of Nigeria has accused one of the major opposition leaders, Peter Obi, of treason, weeks after the candidate of the ruling party won a hotly contested presidential election.
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated the government’s position during engagements with journalists in Washington DC in the United States of America on Tuesday.
Mohammed accused the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, of inciting people to violence over the outcome of the February 25 presidential election, saying it was treasonable.
“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 a democrat that he claimed to be
“We have come here to balance that skewed narratives and to tell the world unambiguously that the just concluded general elections in Nigeria are the fairest, most transparent and authentic in the history of Nigeria.
“The election is the most fair and credible because of the introduction of Bimodal Voters Verification System (BVAS) which I regard as a game changer.
“BVAS technology had helped to weed out ghost and illegal voters, eliminate multiple voting and return sanity to the elections,” Mr Mohammed said.
Relying on the INEC report, the minister said BVAS, during the polls, worked 97 per cent giving unparalleled credibility to the elections.
The Agency
