President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan on Tuesday evening
conceded defeat and congratulated the Presidential candidate of the opposition
party, General Muhammed Buhari (rtd), reports ITRealms.
According to ITRealms
resource, President Jonathan extended his congratulation via a telephone conversation
at 5:50pm, analysts said the immediacy with which President Jonathan conceded
was to avert any form of violence in the country.
ITRealms recalls
that Jonathan was the Presidential candidate of the ruling People’s Democratic
Party (PDP) while Gen. Buhari stood in for the All Progressive Congress (APC)
in the March 28, 2015 Presidential elections held across Nigeria, the most
populous black nation.
Although ITRealms
gathered that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is yet to
declare any of the 14 presidential candidates a winner based on the final
result, at the time of filing this report, political and public analysts
alluded the conceding by President Jonathan to the fact that most of the
results up to 30 states out of the 36 states have been released by the INEC
State Collation Officers, who are mainly Vice Chancellors of various
universities in the country.
Also, analysts posited, President Jonathan is living out his
words that no Nigerian blood is worth his political ambition, hence, he quickly
conceded to avert any political upheavals.
Political commentators have started already to also eulogise
President Jonathan for conceding, saying that is the mark of a good leader,
even as it could be read that Nigerians have conducted themselves during the
2015 elections.
ITRealms reports
that with this action by Mr. President, has not silenced any form of rejection
of the electoral results, which lured its presence earlier in the day when PDP
stalwart, Mr. Godsdey Orubebe openly challenged the INEC leadership on allegation
of favouritism and ethnically bias in support of APC.
Also, the president-elect, General Buhari has called on his
supporters to see the outcome of the election as victory for all Nigerians.
Speaking through the APC publicity secretary, Alhaji Lia
Mohammed, urged supporters to remain calm and peaceful, warning they must not destroy
properties or lives, especially those belonging to the PDP supporters.
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