Pan Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has come down hard on Nigeria’s Minister of Information, Mr. Lai Mohammed over his stance that the 2023 general election was credible.
Afenifere, in a statement issued by its Secretary-General, Sola Ebiseni, asserted that the minister was not sincere in his claims.
The group maintained that Mohammed’s plan to give credibility to the elections failed, particularly, given that those he met with in the United States of America were aware of all that happened on February 25 and March 18.
The Minister of Information, during a chat with some media organisations in Washington DC, described the elections as the most transparent and authentic in the history of the country.
The group also accused Mohammed of deliberately distorting facts, noting that his claims contradicted all that played out at the polls and the cases filed in court.
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‘Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information, falls in this unenviable class with his current visits and interviews in the United States of America to taint sacred facts about the 2023 Presidential election.
‘In a clear case of abuse of office, Lai Mohammed, trying desperately to dance himself back to the mind of his party candidate after having taken a different course during the primaries, has mindlessly descended to the abyss of falsehood reminiscent of his modus operandi as party spokesperson, with which he has odiously smeared the office of the nation’s Minister of Information.’
The minister is in Washington to engage with international media organisations and think tanks on the just-concluded 2023 polls.
He has so far engaged respectively with the Washington Post, Voice of America, Associated Press and Foreign Policy Magazine.
The minister said in fulfilment of the President’s pledge to restore sanity to the electoral process, he resolved that he would not confer a special advantage on any political party, including the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), during the election.
He said during the past elections, the President ensured that nobody used the security agencies to rig the election in his favour but created a level-playing ground for the elections to take place.