The President Muhammadu Buhari regime has described former president Olusegun Obasanjo as a biased statesman, bent on thwarting the choice of millions of Nigerian voters with his open letter to the president. 

The Buhari regime said this in a statement by minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed, on Tuesday. 

”Though masquerading as an unbiased and concerned elder statesman, former President Obasanjo is in reality a known partisan who is bent on thwarting, by subterfuge, the choice of millions of Nigerian voters,” Mr Mohammed said.

‘Instead, former President Obasanjo used his unsolicited letter to insinuate, or perhaps wish for, an inconclusive election and a descent into anarchy; used his time to cast aspersion on electoral officials who are unable to defend themselves, while surreptitiously seeking to dress his personal choice in the garb of the people’s choice. This is duplicitous,” he added.

The former president, had in a letter, faulted the electoral process, alleging that the National Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) had been compromised, while also calling for the cancellation of the result.

The Peoples Democratic Party, Labour Party and other parties staged a walk out of the result collation venue, International Conference Centre, Abuja, on Monday, accusing INEC of failure to upload election results on the commission’s viewing portal.