Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s call to President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the electoral process by compelling the INEC Chairman, Mahmoud Yakubu to halt collation and announcement of the Presidential elections and call for outright cancellation of some of the already concluded elections has been generating reactions among notable Nigerians.
Former Governor of Ogun State, Olusegun Osoba has described the statement of the Former President Olusegun Obasanjo calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the electoral process by compelling Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmoud Yakubu to halt collation and announcement of the Presidential elections and call for outright cancellation of same as provocative and inciting.
Olusegun Osoba said this on Tuesday while speaking with TVC News on Tuesday Morning.
He urged Nigerians to maintain peace and order and allow the Independent National Electoral Commission to announce the result.
He also described the Statement as a confirmation of the undemocratic Tendencies of the Former President an his proclivity for mischief.
On the belief by many that the former President acts the way he does to prevent another Yoruba man to reach the same height he has reached, Chief Osoba said, Obasanjo’s statement is a confirmation of this with many people including a very senior lawyer close to him has suggested an interim Government.
He added that the antics of the former President will not work with President Buhari who is not an interventionist President and will not intervene.
He also said all the attempt to truncate the process through an interim injunction from the Courts will fail.
He said the Political parties and their agents have the results as handed over to them at each polling unit and know the final result adding that what is happening in Abuja is just collation and nothing more.
He also commended the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Mahmoud Yakubu, for maintaining calm despite several personal attacks to him in the course of the conduct and ongoing collation of results from all over the country in the Presidential Election.
