President-Elect, Bola Tinubu has set up teams to woo aggrieved presidential candidates to start the “healing process”.
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, Chief Press Secretary, Richard Olatunde.
disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday.
Akeredolu who is a member of the committees, said a Committee of Elders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) would soon begin to reach out to the other co-contestants of the President-elect in a bid to assuage their loss in the just concluded poll.
He said every aggrieved person would be contacted.
“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 governor stated.
Both presidential candidates f the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP), Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi respectively have said they would head to court to seek redress on the outcome of the elections.
Tinubu on Wednesday twice extended invitations to his opponents to join him in the act of governance. First, it was in his acceptance speech on Wednesday, when he told his co-contestants, saying “I take this opportunity to appeal to my fellow contestants to let us team up together. It is the only nation we have. It is one country and we must build together,” he said.
“Whether you are Batified or Atikulated, Obidients, Kwankwasiyya or have any other political affiliation, you voted and struggled for a better Nigeria, a more hopeful nation and I thank you for your participation and dedication to our democracy.
“You decided to place your trust in the democratic vision of a Nigerian founded on a shared prosperity and one nurtured by the ideas of unity, justice, peace and tolerance,” Tinubu added.
