Dele Alake, an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, claims that many Nigerians are rejecting the outcome of the 2023 presidential election due to bias produced by Labour Party-sponsored pre-election predictions.
He claimed that because the ultimate outcome of the presidential election differed from what some individuals, especially certain international media organizations, predicted, it is difficult for them to adjust to reality.
This is in response to his contention that the election that delivered Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as president-elect was the most free, fair, peaceful, and credible in Nigeria since 1999.
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Newsmen Understands Alake made the remark during a meeting with members of international media organizations in Abuja on Thursday.
As a result, he urged international media sources to refrain from labeling the 2023 presidential election as illegitimate, claiming that the Labour Party’s incorrect estimates have resulted in a “mischaracterization” of Tinubu.
“With the eventual outcome of the election at variance with some of the Labour Party-sponsored pre-election predictions, many international media organisations that took premature positions on the basis of these flawed polls, found themselves blind-spotted, leading to some of the skewed reports about the election,” Alake said.
“We object to the mischaracterisation of the presidential election by a section of the international media.
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“Contrary to the innuendos and aspersions being cast on the election by organisations such as Financial Times, Economist, New York Times among others, we make bold to say that the 2023 Presidential election is the most credible, most free and most fair national election in Nigeria since 1999.
“We consider it unfair and quite uncharitable to describe the last election as fraudulent, manipulated or flawed.
“All the noise over results not being uploaded on the INEC server was misplaced. The election in Nigeria is done at about 176,000 polling units. The results are announced, signed by party agents and sent to collation centres at ward, council and state levels.
“Results are tallied at the state level and announced.”
Alake went on to say that the APC candidate, Bola Tinubu, defeated Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) because they all had divided structures going into the election.
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He claimed that only Tinubu presented a cohesive front throughout the election.
“It must be stressed that only the APC went into the 2023 election intact,” he said.
“These divisions within the main opposition played out in our favour. It was a repeat of 2015 when some PDP states supported the new coalition of parties called APC and gave President Buhari a resounding victory.
“The presidential candidate of PDP at his post-election press conference admitted that the Labour Party swept away his party’s votes from its traditional stronghold in south-east and south-south.
“He is yet to admit the impact of the rebellion of the G5 governors and Kwankwaso in the large voting state of Kano.”
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