The founder of Anap Foundation, Atedo Peterside has asserted that those who have rushed to congratulate Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Tinubu are doing so because they have not seen available evidence alleging that the presidential election was terribly rigged.
The foremost economist, made this known in an interview with Arise TV on Wednesday in an interview monitored by Africa Today News, New York.
He pointed out that it was still premature to congratulate Tinubu.
He said he would only congratulate the winner of the 2023 presidential election when the court proves that the results uploaded by the Independent National Electoral Commission were correct.
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According to him, the results uploaded by the electoral body are insults on Nigerians’ intelligence
He said, ‘If they go through this process and the judges convince us that everything was done correctly and we adopt the numbers, whoever is the winner at that time, I will congratulate him.
‘But for now, it is premature. When I can see with my own eyes what INEC has uploaded, it is an insult to everybody’s intelligence; it is premature. People who are rushing to congratulate him have not taken the trouble to even look at the available information or the evidence.’
Africa Today News, New York reports that while some world leaders have sent in their congratulatory messages to the former Lagos governor, the United States president, Joe Biden has surpassingly maintained silence.
In another report, Tinubu has said he has no preferred candidates for the leadership of both the Senate and the House of Representatives in the 10th National Assembly.
Tinubu, represented by the Vice President-elect, Kashim Shettima, disclosed this at the meeting with new members-elect to the National Assembly in Abuja.
A member-elect for Bungudu/Maru Federal Constituency of Zamfara State, Abdulmalik Bungudu, revealed this to our correspondent shortly after the meeting.
Bungudu, who spoke in the Hausa language, revealed that Tinubu told attendees that he had no preferred candidates for any of the principal offices of the 10th NASS.