Former Minister Femi Fani-Kayode has commended the Russian President Vladimer Putin for not congratulating Joe Biden despite announcement from International media.
FFK stated that he threaded on the path caution and his position should be emulated as the media does not have the responsibility of announcing the winner of an election.
Recall that the United States of America had their election on the 3rd of November, 2020 which announced Joe Biden as the President elect.
He wrote, “The Kremlin has said that Vladimer Putin will not congratulate Joe Biden until all legal processes have been exhausted and an official announcement has been made by the relevant authorities in America that he has won the presidential election.
An announcement by CNN, FOX News, Al Jazeera, BBC and all the other television and media outlets in the world is NOT good enough for them.
I commend the Russians who have decided to tread the path of caution in view of the circumstances under which Biden has emerged.
This is how foreign Governments are meant to react to the unfolding and increasingly unsavoury events in America.
Shame on ALL foreign leaders who have congratulated Biden on winning an election in which only the media has declared him as winner.
Kudos to Russia, China, Mexico, Turkey, Brazil, Hungary, Iran, North Korea and a number of others for refusing to do so. I am disappointed with the premature congratulatory messages offered to Biden by the UK, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Israel, India, Pakistan, Egypt …South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, South Korea, Japan and a number of other countries. I am dumbfounded by some Nigerian leaders who have also congratulated Biden including Buhari, Olusegun Obasano, Goodluck Jonathan, Abubakar Atiku, Bukola Saraki, Peter Obi and many others.
This unnecessary fawning & belittling expression of love & support for their candidate could at least have waited until the matter has been concluded. If Trump prevails & he is sworn in on January 20th there are going to be a lot of very red faces on the world stage whether anyone wishes to accept it or not, the fact of the matter is that the election results have NOT been confirmed and the Electoral College has NOT formally met & declared the outcome. To add to that there are serious and credible claims of fraud, cheating, perfidy voter suppression and election irregularities which the courts are yet to look into and there is still a long way to go before the whole matter is brought to an end and formally concluded.
Congratulating the candidate of a political party that may well have ruthlessly and corruptly rigged his way to what is likely to end up being a pyrrhic and short-lived “victory” is not in our nation’s interest, is not the way to enhance, strengthen, support and entrench democracy and does not speak well of those who have done so whether you support Biden or Trump, let us at least wait for the matter to be properly concluded and a winner officially declared by the relevant authorities before we start dishing out our congratulatory messages like confetti at a white wedding.
Anything less is inappropriate, irresponsible, unbecoming, embarrassing and utterly slavish.
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