Pa Ayo Adebanjo, the leader of the Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation Afenifere, has branded Saturday’s presidential election result proclaimed by the Chairman of the Independent National Election Commission, INEC, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, as a daylight robbery.
Recalls that INEC declared the All Progressives Congress, APC, standard bearer, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as president-elect after he polled a total of 8,794,726 million votes to defeat Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Peter Obi of the Labour Party, who finished second and third, respectively.
Atiku, who has now stood for president six times, received 6,984,520 votes, while Obi received 6,101,533 votes.
The elder statesman who backed Obi responded to Tinubu’s election as president-elect by calling it a temporary and pyrrhic win in an interview with Arise TV on Friday.
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“As of that election, there was no outcome,” Adebanjo continued. The treatment of Tinubu is comparable to that of the Shonekan Temporary Government. That was a win that was only temporary. We will prove it in court, as Labour Party leader and presidential candidate Peter Obi stated.
“I listened to the chairman of INEC, when Dino Melaye told him to suspend results because of a lot of irregularities. He said, ‘why don’t you let us correct them before we proceed?’ He said, ‘No!’ But, INEC chairman said, ‘let me complete this exercise and I will review’.
“This is a daylight robbery. The whole country supported you (INEC Chairman) to amend the Electoral Law and you promised to transmit the result by electoral means. You now went back to what we have fought against. What a shame! This government is a disaster.”
