By Sunday Wale Adeniran.
Dino had seen the final result.
In the night of Feb 26, collation centres also known as situation rooms of all major political parties have known the winner of the presidential election held on Saturday.
Dino as the national returning agent of PDP had it too and he has seen that Tinubu, at his first attempt, had defeated Atiku.
It was Ekiti state result that came first, a result we had collated by Saturday night at home. We have 16 local government areas and Tinubu won all. There was no single over voting.
Dino would have found an excuse to disrupt or leave the national collation centre without waiting for any state’s result but that can only be done in an assembly of imbeciles so he was waiting for something ‘tangible’ to use as an excuse to discredit the collation and not wait to hear the devastating defeat officially live.
So immediately Ekiti result was announced, he started creating funny scenes and asking for the process to be halted. 😝
(I actually prayed that he left to hasten the collation).
At that moment, LP merged with PDP, a merger they should have done before the election.
Prof Yakubu, taking after Prof Jega, remained calm and unruffled. He told him that the process can not be halted. He reminded him that each party has an agent at each polling unit where physical voting took place all over the country, an agent at each ward where the first level of collation took place, an agent at each local government area where the second level of collation took place, an agent at the state level where the state collation took place before m returning officers from each state bring their state’s result to FCT.
Dino whose party has lost and who have seen it, would not listen to any of that. He stormed out of the centre with the LP agent and went to a place to hold a press conference. 😝
LP too whose supporters boast of being the only youth and educated folks among all parties’ supporters had also pulled down their result uploading system immediately they saw that Tinubu was in an unassailable lead. 😝
After INEC final collation, Dino found out that the result he got from his party’s agents across Nigeria and what INEC announced were the same but they must continue to find a way to discredit the process.
Atiku, Ayu, Dino, Bwala etc then wore black, Obi’s regular clothe, to protest for the cancellation of the election.
They vowed to protest every day until their prayers were answered but they ran out of gas after two days. Lol
All those who had access to the result as it happened understood their grandstanding but it was a vertical bitter pill to swallow. A man who contested only once in 2023 defeating one who has been contesting since 1993?
I also sympathise with them.
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