President Bola Tinubu stated on Monday that when it is their turn to triumph, those who are unable to endure and accept the pain of defeat in elections do not deserve it.
Tinubu expressed this in his address to Nigerians while remembering this year’s Democracy Day.
The Independent National Electoral Commission had pronounced Tinubu of the APC, the winner of the February 25 Presidential Election.
Tinubu prevailed over the People’s Democratic Party’s Atiku Abubakar and the Labour Party’s Peter Obi, respectively.
“This year, we held the seventh in the cycle of elections that have become sacred rituals of our democratic practice in this dispensation since 1999.”
“That the polls were intensely contested is in itself positive evidence that democracy is well and alive in our land. It is only natural that even as those who won and experienced victory in the various elections are elated and fulfilled, those who lost are disenchanted and disappointed,” he said.
“But the beauty of democracy is that those who win today can lose tomorrow, and those who lose today will have an opportunity to compete and win in the next round of elections.”
According to ABN TV, the president promised more reforms to the judiciary during his speech.
Last Thursday, Tinubu had given his approval to a bill for a constitutional amendment that would make the retirement age and pension rights of judicial officers uniform.
