President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has attacked his opponents in the February 25 election which include Peter Obi of the Labour Party and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who refused to accept defeat, saying sore losers don’t deserve victory in the future.
Atiku and Peter Obi have refused to congratulate Tinubu for emerging president claiming the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) didn’t carry out a free and fair process. They are currently contesting the President’s victory at the court.
However, in his first Democracy Day address today, Monday, June 12, 2023, Tinubu said those won’t don’t have the mind to accept defeat of elections, do not deserve victory in the future.
He said, “Those who cannot endure and accept the pain of defeat in elections do not deserve the joy of victory, when it is their turn to triumph.
“Above all, those who disagree with the outcome of the elections are taking full advantage of the constitutional provisions to seek redress in court and that is one of the reasons why democracy is still the best form of government invented by man.”
Tinubu in the live broadcast also eulogised the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the late Chief MKO Abiola, and other martyrs of the struggle that followed, saying Abiola paid the supreme price for democracy to survive.
The president also noted that orders used to truncate or abridge democracy would no longer be tolerated. He apologised to the Nigerian people for the pains they suffered following the recent removal of fuel subsidy.
“We can easily recall the sacrifice and martyrdom of Chief MKO Abiola, the custodian of the sacred mandate that was so cruelly annulled. He sacrificed his life in unyielding, patriotic defence of the ideals of democracy as symbolised in his choice, by his fellow countrymen and women, as their duly-elected President.
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