Politics
Stop inciting unrest over electoral defeat, Emami tells opposition
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State, Chief Ayirimi Emami, has admonished leaders of the opposition parties and other politicians to desist from heating the polity.
Emami spoke in the wake of alleged plots by the opposition to foist an Interim National Government (ING) as part of ploy to thwart the inauguration of the President Elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
While calling for calm from all law-abiding Nigerians, Emami expressed confidence in the ability of the nation’s security agencies to ensure peaceful transition while dealing with acts that could undermine democracy.
He said Tinubu won the election fair and square, asking losers to accept the result or challenge it through legal means without threatening the peace and security of Nigeria.
Emami, who gave the advice in a statement in Warri, on Sunday, lamented the opposition’s continued resolve to rhetorics and clandestine plots to destabilize the country, even in the face of their legal challenge of the result.
He urged the opposition and their candidates who lost in the recent Presidential/National Assembly and Governorship/House of Assembly elections to desist from inciting demonstrations and making unguided remarks, to prevent avoidable crisis in the country.
He said: “The judiciary has so far exhibited its independence in the dispensation of justice as judgments have gone in favour of the APC, PDP, Labour Party and other political parties at different times.”
Whilst noting that in States where INEC declared PDP, Labour Party and NNPP winners, the APC and its candidates have resorted to litigation and shunned divisive comments, stressing the need for political actors to wait for the outcome of the courts, rather than threatening the peace of the country.