Keyamo Drags Trump In, Mocks Atiku, Obi After Blinken’s Phone Call To Tinubu

Festus Keyamo has dragged Donald Trump in as an issue in the dispute between Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and his major rivals, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi following the criticism by the opposition leaders to the phone call to the president-elect by the United States secretary of state, Anthony Blinken.

Keyamo in dismissing the criticism of the phone call by Atiku and Obi, said that the United States Democratic Party administration was well of the traits of the opposition in Nigeria given what he claimed as the personality of Donald Trump, the immediate past president of the US.

Keyamo who served as the official spokesman to the Tinubu campaign spoke after Atiku, the PDP presidential candidate expressed outrage that US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken made a telephone call to Tinubu.

Atiku had lamented that the telephone call could indicate a recognition of the reported malfeasances that shadowed the General Election.

Responding, Keyamo in a tweet said

“No, your Excellency, @atiku, it is not a contradiction. The United States and @SecBlinken know you and Peter Obi are behaving like Donald Trump in America: refusing to accept your obvious defeat and relying on propaganda to deceive the world. They have your type in the US, so they understand the issues correctly. They know that whilst there were intolerable incidents during the election perpetrated by all leading parties (for instance Peter Obi got far less votes in Anambra State than was declared – I dare them to publish what is on IREV), they also have credible reports that those isolated incidents did not SUBSTANTIALLY affect the overall outcome of the elections. They know both of you could NOT have won when, as opposition parties, you split your votes into 3 parts, with even a revolt of 5 of your Governors within your depleted party.

Yes, THEY KNOW YOU LOST AND @officialABAT WON, FAIR AND SQUARE. And for those who perpetrated these irregularities during the elections, the US has applied the appropriate sanctions (and we welcome those sanctions which deepen our democracy), but that is that.

“IT IS NOT A CONDEMNATION OF THE ENTIRE ELECTION AS YOU HAVE WRONGLY ASSUMED. Hence, a couple of days ago, the Chargé d’Affaires ad interim of the U.S Embassy in Nigeria, Mr David Greene visited the Vice-President-Elect Senator Kashim Shettima and earlier today Secretary Blinken put a call through to @officialABAT to pledge the cooperation of the US and its support for the in-coming administration. The world has actually moved on, but you and Peter Obi are still standing on one spot.

“As usual, you and Peter Obi are depending on your usual bullying tactics to overwhelm the US and

@SecBlinken and cow them to toe your warped line of reasoning that has NO EVIDENTIAL basis. Unfortunately for you, these are people and institutions that cannot be overwhelmed by your mob on social media. That system handled Trump and his tantrums. They can also handle you and Peter Obi.”

GWG.ng reports that the comparison of Trump to Atiku and Obi by Keyamo as a way of rebuffing their opposition to the emergence of Tinubu as president-elect following the phone call from Blinken to Tinubu.

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