All Progressives Congress in Osun
State has said the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic
Party, Senator Iyiola Omisore, will face disgrace at the election
petition tribunal. The party said the PDP was manufacturing
false information in order to discredit the August 9 election which
produced Governor Rauf Aregbesola as the winner.
The party in a statement issued by its
Director of Publicity, Strategy and Research, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi,
therefore, urged the people of the state not to believe the “lies” being
peddled by the PDP, saying the PDP was incapable of telling the truth.
The APC said this while reacting to the
suspension of two electoral officers by the Independent National
Electoral Commission over alleged electoral malpractice. The PDP had said the suspended officials helped in manipulating the outcome of the election in favour of Aregbesola. However, the APC said, “The PDP and its
leadership will continue to suffer defeat and disgrace in the state for
as long as it continues to propagate deceit and lies about goings-on in
the state of the virtuous.
“The PDP has again suffered the shame of
being exposed as habitual liars in their mean attitude to political
engagement in the State of Osun. The PDP’s obsession to weave a
structure of lies to support its baseless case at the tribunal has led
the opposition party to clutching at straws and fabricating stories to
give a semblance of validity to the tissue of lies that are behind its
bogus case against Senator Iyiola Omisore’s defeat at the August 9
governorship election.
“Cases at election tribunals can only
stand on the basis of fact and credible figures, not on fabrication and
lies that have become the habit of the PDP. That the current lie of the
PDP against the APC and INEC has been exposed is an ominous precursor to
the imminent defeat of the party again at the tribunal.” The APC, however, called on INEC to carry out a thorough investigation and prosecute the errant officials.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Police
Affairs, Alhaji Jelili Adesiyan, has said the suspension of the INEC
officials was a confirmation that the election was rigged to favour the
APC. The minister said this in a statement by his media aide, Mr. Wale Akinola.
Adesiyan said the party was convinced
that the election was rigged in favour of the APC and that was the
reason Omisore filed a petition to challenge the election result.
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