Osun guber: Omisore, PDP head for election tribunal

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State and its governorship candidate in last Saturday’s election, Senator Iyiola Omisore, have expressed dissatisfaction with the outcome of the poll in the state.To this end, both the PDP and Omisore have declared that they would challenge the result of the election at the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal.

The state Chairman of the party, Alhaji Ganiyu Olaoluwa, in a statement issued in Osogbo yesterday, said the PDP would challenge the results released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). He said the party had met and resolved that the results of the election be challenged at the tribunal, adding that the legal team of the party under the leadership of Chief Sunday Ojo-Williams, had met on the development and was already consulting with those that mattered.

The PDP chairman, who described the election as a robbery of the highest order, said it was characterised by malpractices in many parts of the state, especially Osogbo and Ilesa. “The PDP in Osun State rejects the outcome of last Saturday’s election in its totality and we are ready to contest it until the people’s mandate, which was stolen, is returned,” Olaoluwa said.

In a related development, Omisore said the outcome of the election did not reflect the wishes of the people of the state, hence his resolve to challenge it at the tribunal. Omisore, in a statement he personally signed, assured that the wishes of the people would finally come alive, as he would challenge the election results.

He said: “I have resolved to continue to provide leadership until Osun State of our dream is realised. Let it be known that our people will no longer be taken for granted as we have opened the floodgate of democratic challenge which no force on earth can stop.”

Meanwhile, the European Union (EU) Election Monitoring Group has urged Governor Rauf Aregbesola to use all legal means to challenge the alleged arbitrariness by security agencies drafted to the state by the Federal Government during the election.

Coordinator of the group, Mr. Paul Edwards, gave the advice when his team paid a courtesy visit to the governor at his residence after the announcement of the election results. In his congratulatory remarks to Aregbesola, Edwards said the most dependable way to deepen democracy in the country was by strict adherence to the rule of law.

Source: Sunnewsonline