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Presidential candidate reacts to Buhari’s victory
Presidential
candidate of the People’s Trust, PT, Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim has
congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari over his victory in Saturday’s
presidential election.
Olawepo-Hashim charged Buhari to be mindful of the numerous lapses identified in the electioneering process.
In
a statement he signed, the Presidential candidate explained that he was
congratulating the declared winner for the greater good, peace and
progress of the nation and also in compliance with the peace accord
which all candidates signed.
Olawepo-Hashim said: “I am
particularly thankful to the people of Yauri Emirate and Zuru in Kebbi
State who spoke through their votes that family ties cannot be easily
broken by politics. While the APC and PDP remained the dominant parties
in Kebbi State, the great people of Kebbi State showed loyalty to the
bloodline by making sure that People’s Trust emerged third in most of
the State.
“I continued to receive calls of support and
solidarity from titleholders in the Emirates and village heads who
continued to say to me, ‘I hope you saw our hand?’. I saw their hands.
The votes were many, not the 96 votes declared by Professor Mahmood
Yakubu, Chairman of INEC.
“We passed a strong message that a
‘new and better Nigeria is possible’. Now the election has been won and
lost. It is my duty, as a matter of honour as all contestants signed an
accord to keep the peace and congratulate the winner. I, therefore,
offer my felicitation to the winner of the 2019 Presidential election,
President Mohammad Buhari. I pray for God’s guidance for him and wisdom
as he steers the ship of State further in the next four years”
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