Politics: Presidential candidate reacts to Buhari’s victory

 

President Buhari's Victory

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” dailypost.