Fitch neither issued any report on Nigeria’s election, nor predicted Tinubu’s victory-Agency
Fitch did not issue any report on Nigeria’s election, let alone predict Bola Tinubu’s victory as all searches on the Fitch website have come up with nil verdict on anything related to Tinubu or Nigerian election.
It was reported on Friday that a Fitch Solutions Country Risk and Industry Research report released on Thursday had predicted victory for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 presidential election.
The report on the Nigerian presidential election, which was said to have been done by a subsidiary of international credit rating firm, Fitch Ratings’, projected that the victory will lead to protests and social instability in the country because of the Muslim-Muslim ticket and the expectations of the followers of Labour Party’s candidate, Peter Obi, that will be dashed.
It stated that notwithstanding some polls putting Obi ahead of other contestants, Tinubu will still emerge winner in the February contest.
The report said, “Indeed, we maintain our view that the ruling party’s Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the candidate most likely to win the presidential election as a split opposition vote will favour the APC.
But all searches on the Fitch website have come up with NIL verdicts on anything related to Tinubu or Nigerian election, another major fraud on unsuspecting Nigerian electorate.
Meanwhile, the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation has dismissed as speculative the Fitch Ratings report, describing it as merely contrived, imaginary and completely illusory.
Spokesman for the Atiku/Okowa campaign Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement on Saturday, described the report as merely contrived, imaginary and completely illusory.
He said, “It is a trivial opinion of ignorant interlopers which does not conform to any empirical or substantiated indicators regarding the direction of the 2023 presidential election in Nigeria.
“While we do not want to conclude on the opinion already widely held in the public space that the report was procured or not emanating officially from Fitch, especially given the desperation and devious antecedents of the Tinubu Campaign Organisation and the All Progressives Congress (APC), it is however important to state that these conjectures are direct opposite of the reality on ground.
“It is important to note that the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has no electoral fighting chance before the PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar and his running mate Ifeanyi Okowa.
“Contrary to the report being peddled by the APC, Asiwaju Tinubu is battling with trust issues, stamina concerns, and massive open rejection by majority of voters across the country, mass exodus from his APC into PDP due to the abysmal failures of his party in addition to his (Asiwaju’s) self-confessed selfish motives for being in the presidential race,” the statement said.
