Only free, fair election for opposition is when APC loses – Keyamo

The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has lambasted the opposition for the “futile excuses” they give after losing elections.

Speaking via his X post on Sunday, Keyamo berated those lamenting irregularities in the Federal Capital Territory area council elections, adding that the only free and fair election to them is the one in which they emerge as the winner.

The minister called the opposition “lazy and shameless” while noting that Nigerians are not fools.

“This set of opposition fellows are a bunch of lazy and shameless characters. The futile excuses they give for losing elections have become their opium to numb their pain, disappointment and shame for their rejection by the electorate after all their theatrics and grandstanding. Nigerians are NOT FOOLS.

“Out of a total of 2,822 polling units in FCT, they display result sheets that were corrected (for whatever reason) in less than 10 units to attempt to prove that THE WHOLE ELECTION was marred by irregularities.

“Assuming it is even 50 units that had corrected (or mutilated) sheets, that leaves you with over 2,770 units.

“They go further to use this flawed logic to create mass hysteria that ‘our democracy is in danger’ and attempt to stir social unrest amongst unsuspecting Nigerians.

“The only election that can be free and fair, in their own warped minds, is when the ruling party loses,” Keyamo stated.