Lai Mohammed, the minister of culture and information, has referred to the general elections of 2023 as being the most transparent in the history of the country.

Mohammed made the comment while briefing State House media on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.

He asserts that President Muhammadu Buhari gave the incumbent All Progressives Congress (APC) no advantage during the February 25 presidential election.

The minister also clarified comments he made following a recent trip to the United States.

 “I went to the U.S. to balance the skewed report about the just concluded elections; and everywhere I went, I said very unambiguously that the last general elections in Nigeria are the most transparent.

“It was the freest and the most authentic Nigeria had ever held, and that is despite the effort of the opposition to delegitimise the election.

“And I put forward my position there that the two reasons the election was the best were one.

“The introduction of technology especially, the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System(BVAS), made it pretty difficult for anybody to do the usual things before like over-voting, stuffing of ballot boxes and the likes because once it takes your biometrics; you cannot vote twice”, he stated.

Mohammed continued by saying that President Buhari kept his word when he said he would create an equal playing field.

“The first instance was that the president did not confer any advantage on his ruling party; and that is why as far as he was concerned, he would rather lose the election than win at all cost; and the result showed it.”