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Chief Olusegun Osoba, elder statesman and former governor of Ogun State has described last weekend’s election as a true reflection of voters’ value and one of the freest and fairest in Nigeria’s history.

Osoba made the remark on Sunday when he was featured on a Programme; Journalist Hangout on Television Continental (TVC).

The Akinrogun of Egba land explained that the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, clearly won the election. He also described the decision of Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) to reject the presidential election result as a deliberate attempt to create chaos and anarchy in the country.

He added that Nigerians are conscious of their actions and would not allow themselves to be instigated or provoked into putting the country on fire while urging the aggrieved candidates to present specific and not random information to back their claims.

Responding to a question on Atiku, Obi’s rejection of the election results for the 2023 presidential election, Osoba said, “It is an attempt to draw us back, and create chaos within the system. They all have the results of the elections signed by their agents all over the country, they know very well what happened. To now claim that they won the election is a disappointment to me; I can assure you, Nigerians are wiser now, and nobody will be instigated or provoked into turning this country on fire. “

“I must say with all sense of responsibility that , the 2023 elections have been the most peaceful election we’ve ever had. And against all they are churning out…with the BVAS, issues of loading fake figures are eliminated, and making comparisons with other elections is not accurate. The turnout in this election is the highest turnout and it’s reasonably transparent, in spite of the fact that the BVAS was not loaded (with results) in time.

“That should not be the reason why anyone will query the results, because the results have been counted and signed at the polling unit, collated at the ward level, and local government level, and signed by all agents and then to the house of reps collation centers and senatorial centers signed, and at the state levels, the presidential results were collated there and signed, so about six levels have been totally correct and transparent, I will assure you that by the time you download results uploaded on the server and compare it with results that were delivered at all the stages that I have mentioned, it will tally,” he stated.

“Do a scientific analysis of the results, Look at Asiwaju’s electoral spread, it is the greatest spread I have ever seen; I have been involved in elections since 1959. Here is a candidate that defied all odds. He won in the middle belts, the hotseat for the religious issue, he won Benue, Kogi, Kwara, Niger state, and made an impact in Plateau.

“Atiku coming out to say he’s unhappy… In the caliphate (Sokoto) Atiku won with a difference of about 3000 margins to Asiwaju’s vote. Atiku won in Osun, I was born in Oshogbo, It beats my imagination that that would come into my state of birth and won; iis he saying he also rigged in Osun? All the noise about winning…I look at Obi’s performance, in Nasarawa, Obi won, In Lagos he won; in Delta, he won, and now you are querying the results. As far as I’m concerned, this election has shown that the mandate is a prime mandate; southern Nigeria and northern Nigeria have shown unity… a man who can win 25 percent, a man who scored 80 percent and you’re saying he manipulated the examination…Atiku and Obi should come out with specific information not just random information, the elder statesman declared.