Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, says President Muhammadu Buhari will not send a congratulatory message to the Governor of Bayelsa State Seriake Dickson,over his re-election.
Addressing journalists in Abuja on Monday, Mohammed said Buhari would not follow the step of his predecessor who was fond of sending congratulatory messages to winners of elections irrespective of party affiliation.
“This president is not in the business of interfering and intervening in elections,” he said. “What if he sent a congratulatory message and they go to court and the election is overturned, will he call back the congratulatory message? “This president believes that the presidency should be insulated from the conduct of elections and their outcomes.”
There had been reactions on the coldness exhibited by the president on Dickson’s victory, with Ben Murray Bruce, representative of Bayelsa east senatorial district at the national assembly, taunting the president over the issue.
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