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The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus
Keyamo has insisted that the President-elect Bola Tinubu won the just concluded
February 25 presidential election.
Keyamo maintained that Tinubu defeated Mr Peter Obi of the
Labour Party, LP, with a margin of 2,693,193 votes.
The Minister, in a tweet on Tuesday, said that an allegation
of electoral malpractice in just one State cannot upturn the entire result of
the election if it did not affect the declared result.
He added that evidence allowed in court to prove over voting
may differ greatly from what was put together to make what he described as
“fanciful documentaries.”
“So, let me educate the unlearned fellows as to how
electoral jurisprudence works so that no one deceives them: If you allege
electoral malpractice in just ONE STATE and you do 100 TV documentaries on it,
it cannot and will not upturn the overall result of the election in the event
that when you subtract or add the result of that ONE STATE to the overall
tally, the margin between both candidates will still not be obliterated,” part
of his tweet read.
