President Muhammadu Buhari has done a postmortem of the recent elections in the country and concluded that the foreign backing the opposition allegedly got gave them false hope.
According to him, his party – the APC – rather worked hard to secure victory.
Buhari said this when he received members of the Progressive Governors Forum led by their Chairman, Governor Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi State, at his residence in the State House, Abuja.
“Our party blended confidence with caution, we worked hard and won. Now, their overconfidence is creating more problems for the opposition than anyone else,” he said.
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, disclosed this in a statement he signed on Thursday titled ‘President Buhari: opposition was victim of over confidence in last elections.’
According to the President “They (the opposition) were already telling their foreign backers that they would defeat the APC. Our party blended confidence with caution, we worked hard and won.
“Now, their overconfidence is creating more problems for the opposition than anyone else. They are finding it hard to convince those who supported them from outside why they are unable to beat us.
“A combination of over confidence, complacency and bad tactical moves made them lose, plain and clear. This has created more problems in their camp. Why did they fail to remove us?”
In his response to an issue raised by Governor Bagudu, the leader of the Forum, Buhari said, “An important reason I congratulate Asiwaju (Bola Tinubu) on winning is because the opposition got support and false hope from outside and went on to create the impression that they will win, that they will defeat us. How more wrong could anyone be?”
The President urged the Progressive Governors to stick together and openly address issues among themselves.
