Peter Okoye, PBA Journalism Mentee
Nigeria’s President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has set up a reconciliation committee to reach out to other leading candidates in the just concluded presidential election.
Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, who disclosed this in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Richard Olatunde, said that the committees comprised elders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who would meet to appeal to other presidential candidates for reconciliation and how to move the country forward.
Join our WhatsApp Channel“We would soon begin to meet with co-contestants of the President-elect in a bid to assuage their loss in the just concluded Presidential Election,” Akeredolu said.
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The APC candidate, Bola Tinubu emerged winner after securing 8,794,276 votes to defeat Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who scored 6,984,520 votes in the election, Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) polled 6,101,533 votes while Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), scored 1,496,687 votes.
Akeredolu emphasized that the presidential election conducted last Saturday was free and fair and appealed to other contestants to work with the president-elect in moving the country forward.
“The President-elect has set up committees to meet with the gentlemen who contested in the election for us to start the healing process.
“I belong to one of the committees. We are going to meet them and appeal to them so that we can work together,” the Ondo governor stated.
