Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) has said Nigerians freely voted overwhelmingly for President Muhammadu Buhari and other candidates on contested for National Assembly elections on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The Vice President that the claims of rigging in some quarters were unsubstantiated. He also noted that the APC administration has done enough for Nigerians to warrant a reelection.
Osinbajo said this on Thursday night in a meeting with the Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar-led National Peace Committee.
Sources at the meeting said the vice-president analysed the voting pattern and concluded that there was no way the PDP would have won the elections as being claimed by members of the main opposition party.
The source said, “The Vice President told us how the APC deserved the victory it got and how President Buhari had transformed the economy and worked on the security architecture of the country. He spoke on how the Federal Government had used the military to restore peace to the North-East.
“He said the APC got the huge number of votes it got from the North-East because the voters wanted to show gratitude to the President and his team. He also explained how the President had usually got huge number of votes from both the North-East and North-West even when he was a member of a small political party that did not have any structure.”
At the end of the meeting, it was learnt that Cardinal Onaiyekan told the vice-president that the President must pursue reconciliation and that it would not be good to have a divided country.
“The Cardinal told him (Osinbajo) that the Federal Government must listen to the people, pursue reconciliation,” the source added.