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TEXT OF PRESS CONFERENCE ADDRESSED BY MR.DELE ALAKE, SPECIAL ADVISER, MEDIA, PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS OF ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN COUNCIL ON FEBRUARY 28, 2023 IN ABUJA

Gentlemen of the press,we welcome you again this

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afternoon to another session over some developments after our briefing yesterday. You must have read the statement yesterday evening by former President Olusegun Obasanjo where he was literally calling for the cancellation of the last Saturday's Presidential&
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National Assembly elections.

His call was anchored on the unsubstantiated claims, rumours and allegations of fraud by opposition parties led by Peoples Democratic Party and Labour Party,who having seen that they have lost the election would rather want our hard won democracy

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to be truncated on the altar of their lies.

You must also be aware of the gang up by the PDP and Labour Party, whose agents walked out of the National Collation Centre in Abuja on Monday. Today, they continued their conspiracy to truncate our 24 year democratic journey

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by raising unfounded allegations against INEC, casting aspersions on the whole electoral process, forgetting the
process had handed them unexpected victories in some states.
We have always suspected that Labour Party and PDP are the same,only divided by individual

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inordinate ambition.
We want to remind them that election is a process like pregnancy. Like a pregnancy that has reached full term, it cannot be aborted. We are not in 1993 when June 12 was aborted by similar forces. It is too late to do so.

The APC-PCC wants to say

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emphatically that former President Obasanjo has no moral right to meddle in this election let alone calling for its cancellation because he is an interested party having publicly, on January 1 this year, endorsed the candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi.
Although we

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stand by our position as stated yesterday not to jump the protocol governing the announcement of the election results and allow Independent National Electoral Commission to perform its constitutional duty, we want to tell the gathering anti-democratic forces that we have the

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strength, the determination and the will to protect and defend this process and the soon-to-be-formally announced mandate freely given to our party and Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima.

We are very well aware of the

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plan of the PDP & their Labour Party collaborators to heighten tension in the country & create general state of fear through their sponsored Television & Radio surrogates who continue to push false narratives about the general conduct of the election. We are also aware

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of the coordinated assault aimed at discrediting the whole electoral process & the integrity of INEC by their so-called paid & partisan agents who wear the toga of Election Observers.

We consider Obasanjo’s failed attempt to scuttle the process through his unsolicited

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advice to President Muhammadu Buhari to cancel the election as part of the grand orchestration of many evil plots to truncate democracy in Nigeria.

Gentlemen of the press, it is our submission that the election conducted nationwide on Saturday was credible and transparent.

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Our position has been attested to by the international observers such as the Commonwealth, ECOWAS, European Union & African Union observer missions who adjudged the election as peaceful, free & fair whilst they identified areas of logistical improvements INEC should take

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into consideration in future elections.

As you are well aware, the election was replete with drama. We saw the APC presidential candidate, party chairman &PCC director-general, losing their home states to Labour Party. Our DG also lost his bid to the Senate.

We have also

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seen how Governor Samuel Ortom, a Labour Party backer lost his state of Benue to the APC. He also lost his bid to the Senate to the APC candidate. The Benue APC Tsunami was triggered by our popular governorship candidate, Father Hyacinth Alia &the party leader, George Akume.

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In Taraba, we have also witnessed how Governor Darius Ishaku lost his senatorial election.

With all these hills and valleys and dramas that characterized the election, how can anyone claim the election was rigged or not transparent.

We need to enjoin politicians to

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imbibe the democratic spirit. Elections are meant to test a candidate’s acceptance/popularity. In a National election,you must seek acceptance nationally. Ethnic champions can’t go far as democracy is a game of numbers.Wherever a candidate has the critical numbers, he wins.

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Wherever he is deficient, he loses. We have seen all these scenarios at play in the weekend election.

We call on INEC to speed up the announcement of the result to quickly diffuse the current atmosphere of anxiety in the country, so that Nigerians can move on from this

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election circle with a greater hope of a prosperity which our candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu promised them during the electioneering campaign.
We also call on Nigerians and our supporters across the country to be peaceful, excercise more patience and not be provoked

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by the antics of the agents of darkness lurking around.

Finally, we call on Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, to emulate former President Goodluck Jonathan by conceding defeat.This election has already been won by our candidate, according to the results declared at the

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collation centres in the state. In 2015, President Jonathan did not wait for INEC to finish collation before he called President Muhammadu Buhari and congratulated him in the true spirit of democracy and sportsmanship.

We urge Atiku Abubakar and Obi to follow the same

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path of honour, instead of attempting to heat the polity via the reckless statements by surrogates. Let Atiku and Obi call Tinubu now.

Thank you all.

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