2023 Polls: Why Nigerians must ignore EU report on election – Prof Oladimeji

A United States-based Associate Professor of Medicine, Yemi Oladimeji, has called on Nigerians to ignore the final report of the European Union (EU) election observation mission on the 2023 polls.

Oladimeji in a statement on Monday in Osogbo, described the report as a threat to the country’s national unity and portends danger to peaceful co-existence among diverse ethnic groups and interests.

According to him, the report is not comprehensive enough to be valid, since the EU Elections Observer Mission failed to cover a substantial number of polling units across the country during the elections.

Oladimeji said the time of the release of the EU report should also be queried, adding that the report was meant to serve a “political purpose.”

He said, ”no group or individual outside Nigeria has the competence to define us better than who or what we are or interpret our political and electoral processes better than ourselves.”

“There is no time better than now to assert our sovereignty as a nation. Nigeria should resist imperialism under any guise.

“The EU knowing its limitation in interfering directly with the internal affairs of Nigeria now resorts to a subtle appeal to make the world believe something was missing with the nation’s 2023 general elections through that report.

“The majority of Nigeria voted for Bola Tinubu, on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and must be allowed to stay focused and chart a way out of the woods for a country already bedevilled,” he added.