A presidential spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, has narratted how President Bola Tinubu braced the odds from his party, the APC, and attacks from uncouth Labour Party supporters to win the 2023 election.
Speaking with Nigerian Tribune, Onanuga described Tinubu’s victory aas the handiwork of God.
He said, “It was very clear he won. If it had been a two-horse race, and the opposition had combined forces, maybe he would have been beaten because everything was against him. Even though our candidate is a member of the ruling party, there were all kinds of things that some officials of the former government did that ought to have worked seriously against us.
“Like the sudden currency change, in an election year. We’ve been having fuel all over the country, and all of a sudden, we had fuel scarcity. The worse of the two was currency change. People were complaining everywhere. There was no money. Some people said they were paying as much as N20,000 to get N100,000. Nigerians were buying their own money.
“Public resentment built up against the APC and its presidential candidate. Things were so tough, such that even on election day, in many of our states, the party didn’t have money to pay agents. So, for me, it was God’s handiwork that made Bola Tinubu win the election, despite the mudslinging most especially from the Labour Party mob – those uncouth members of the so-called Obidient Movement.
“We always call them a mob as they always respond unthinkingly to a kind of stimulus. Once somebody throws something out, no matter whether it is fallacious, they gobble it and start sharing. And they keep repeating, circulating the false narratives, the false stories, misinformation, and rumours, such that if you don’t respond to them at times, people believe they are telling the truth.”
