National Orientation Agency, NOA has called on Nigerians to remain calm and avoid acts and utterances capable of overheating the polity.
This is coming after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of Saturday’s presidential election.
In a statement, the Director General of NOA, Dr Garba Abari enjoined Nigerians to conduct themselves with decorum and be patient as there are available legal means for redress of electoral grievances.
“As a people, we have invested so much in the 2023 General Election, both as a nation and as individual citizens, to let anything truncate the process at any point. I call on political, religious and traditional leaders and indeed all leaders of thought, to not only exercise caution in their utterances at this time, but also to please use their influence to promote peace, restraint and recourse to legal means alone at this critical moment of our national experience.
“Furthermore, I call on Nigerian youths to shun any voice of temptation urging resort to any unlawful means in ventilating any objections you may have to the election’s outcome. Remember that no Nigerian, young or old, has anything to gain from setting the nation on the path of violence and instability.
Dr Abari maintained that the survival of the country outweighs any other consideration, as such, Nigerians must unite, and work together noting that the country has more to gain as a nation by remaining peaceful and orderly.
The NOA Director General commended Nigerians for what he described as ”impressive” and called on them to remain patriotic.
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