GOVERNOR of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has defended the declaration of Bola Tinubu, the candidate of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the winner.
Among those who have queried the results are the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP), Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, who came second and third respectively.
“The 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections have come and gone. To the glory of God, we have a president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” Bello said told Channels Television.
“In every contest, there must be a winner and a loser. And of course, you can’t stop those that lose from venting their grievances and pointing out flaws. In every system of governance or electioneering, none is 100 percent perfect.
“But let me tell you that, substantially, INEC followed their guidelines and the rules of the game. Our president-elect today followed all these guidelines and the rules and today he has emerged the president-elect.”
According to him, Nigerians should come to terms with the reality that it now has a president-elect in the person of Tinubu, a former Lagos governor.
The governor added that as much as he has supported the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, he is ready to support Tinubu’s government until the latter achieved success.
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