Oladimeji Fabiyi, a prominent member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has criticised political activist Prince Deji Adeyanju for attributing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s win in the 2023 presidential election to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, Adeyanju criticised Atiku Abubakar for the results of the Nigerian presidential election in 2023.
He said that the PDP nominee, Atiku, lost the 2023 election due to a number of lesser-known reasons, including conceit, poor interpersonal skills, an incapacity to control the opposition, and inadequate human relationships.
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Adeyanju voiced his opinion in his New Year’s greeting, claiming that Nigeria would have a different President if Atiku had handled the 2023 elections more skillfully.
The activist chastised Atiku for not cooperating with the likes of Peter Obi of the Labour Party, Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party, Nyesom Wike, the minister of the Federal Capital Territory, and the G5, who ultimately cleared the path for Tinubu’s triumph.
However, in a statement released on Thursday, Fabiyi refuted Adeyanju’s assertion that Atiku was crucial to Tinubu’s win.
He said that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and Adeyanju should take the blame instead.
The PDP leader claims that INEC ought to take responsibility for its inability to follow the rules it set for itself in order to have a legitimate, impartial, and free election in Nigeria.
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His statement read: “I am constrained to disagree with you on your submission about the outcome of the 2023 presidential election and your uncharitable conclusion about the role played by Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the PDP in the election.
“It was most unkind of you to presume that Atiku could have willfully stopped the ambition of Peter Obi alongside the decision of the Wike led G-5 to commit class suicide.
“The political reality of the 2023 election meant that these men were bent on pursuing their ambitions, which is permissible by the law. If you knew Atiku’s political antecedents, you would know that Atiku is a multi-party democrat and would be the last person to stop the ambition of an opponent for any reason whatsoever.
“Should any blame be passed on the 2023 Presidential Election, such blame should go to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for its failure to comply with its self-imposed regulations to conduct a credible, free and fair election in Nigeria.
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“Quite a number of civil society organizations and personalities, including even you, Deji Adeyanju, canvassed for the electronic transmission of results. Curiously INEC did not keep to its words, and you here, Deji and others kept mute about the anomaly and chose to blame the opposition political figures for inadequacies that defined the 2023 presidential election.
“INEC made a humongous budget for the procurement of technologies and the infrastructure to ensure the transparency of the election, but the commission failed woefully on its own mandate.
“Civil society bodies, which ordinarily ought to be the bastion of democratic good governance, unconscionably played deaf and dumb to the development and turned their backs on the decision of the Court of Appeal when it pronounced that electronic voting was not a compulsory mandate on the conduct and collation of election results.
“Rather, unfortunately also no one heard your voice, Deji, when the Chicago State University released its discoveries that the truth that Bola A. Tinubu forged his academic credentials. Atiku’s lawyers fought vigorously to make discoveries of gross misconduct about the man who had just been elected President of Nigeria, but sadly, neither you Deji, nor any other civil society organization, caused a protest in demand for investigation into Tinubu’s fraudulent claims on his education and his possible impeachment.
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“Leave Atiku Abubakar from your blame game and rather look through thyself for the blame.
“How dare you blame Atiku who did the unthinkable and brought to the fore what the ruling establishment would want hidden? Whose interest are you serving? Whatever interest it may be, I believe that it is the interest of anti-democratic elements.”
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