Senator Opeyemi Bamidele representing Ekiti Central District has called on Nigerians to ignore what he described as the ill-motivated advice by former President Olusegun Obasanjo on the ongoing 2023 general elections.
Bamidele made the call in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday.
Obasanjo had on Monday, in a letter to the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, called for the cancellation of the result of the election.
However, Bamidele is not pleased with Obasanjo’s claims, insisting that the former president is jittery.
His statement reads in part: “Obasanjo’s unsolicited reactionary posturing on the just-concluded presidential election is characteristic of his anti-democratic and subversive tendencies, which he had displayed on several occasions over the years.
“This is the same Obasanjo who publicly adopted Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party and urged Nigerians to vote for him. Unfortunately, Peter Obi lost woefully in the polling unit right in front of his house in Abeokuta.
“Apparently, Obasanjo is jittery because of the outcome of the election, which invariably may not be in favour of his adopted candidate. He is a bad loser.”
