2023 Assembly Election: Osun APC Accuses PDP Of ‘Shedding Blood’ To Achieve Victory
Osun state APC has accused Governor Ademola Adeleke and the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, of allegedly shedding the blood of innocent people to fraudulently achieve victory in the 2023 House of Assembly Election.
APC accused the governor and his party members of allegedly making innocent members and supporters of the party lose their lives to achieve what it called ‘undeserved victory’ in the house of assembly election in question.
Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, who is the acting state APC chairman , in a statement made available to Team@orientactualmags.com by the party’s Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi, opined that the election could better be described as ‘a charade or facade because it was devoid of a level -playing field.
Lawal submitted that information at his disposal revealed that the election was heavily -militarized by Adeleke, who allegedly used the Army, the Air force, the police who had their officers leading some hoodlums loyal to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to attack, oppress, intimidate and willfully prevented some of the APC members and supporters from voting during the election across the state.
The statement said the story from Ijesaland was pathetic as the PDP thugs allegedly led by the statutory security officers openly attacked and scared off members of the APC and supporters from their polling places.
He alleged that the PDP thugs, who were emboldened by the protection of the security officers to carry out their dastardly acts, also worked in connivance with some of the ad hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ,who were compromised in the discharge of their official responsibility in favour of the PDP candidates.
He also alleged that the security officers went as far as holding down the members and supporters of the APC for the PDP thugs to beat, humiliate and ordered to lie down once it was discovered that they wanted to vote for the APC.
The statement noted that in some parts of Ijesaland, the PDP thugs were chasing away some of the APC members with the aid of the security agents.
The party added that what took place on Saturday was not qualified for an election as ‘it breached all the known principles of an election in any civilized society’.
Members and supporters of the APC were according to the statement stabbed, attacked, harassed and intimidated in Ila-Orangun, Ikirun, Iragbiji, Ile-Ife, Ifetedo, Ipetumodu, Ikire, Iwo, Ejigbo, Osogbo, Olorunda and some other towns in the state.
He disclosed that the attack on members and supporters of his party by the PDP thugs which started on the eve of the election up to the Election Day was still ongoing in Ilesa, Ifetedo as at the time of issuing this statement on Tuesday.
Lawal argued that the results of the heavily -militarized, rigged and compromised elections ‘could not be the best barometer to measure the popularity and acceptability of the APC as Adeleke had an ally in the security agents, the thugs and the pliable INEC staff to feign non-existing popularity and acceptability of the PDP in the state’.
The statement claimed that there were instances of INEC staff deliberately abandoning some already thumb printed ballot papers at some polling stations in Ifewara, the Atakumosa-East Local Government when they had an information that the APC was having the upper hand in those polling places.
Expressing disappointment in the conduct of some of the security agents ,who allegedly assisted the PDP thugs in maltreating the APC members and supporters during the election, Lawal tasked the leaderships of the statutory security agencies with beaming their searchlight on some of their members whose conduct during the elections had created a negative image for their respective agencies.
Osun state APC also stated readiness to explore all the constitutionally-allowed means to prove to the whole world that the victory being celebrated by the PDP House of Assembly candidates ‘is a fluke dubiously achieved through the shedding of the blood of members and supporters of his party and other innocent citizens of the state’.
The statement claimed that it was for this reason that ‘the PDP candidates could not rejoice over the pyrrhic victory because they are aware that it cannot stand the test of the tribunal’.
Lawal enjoined all the members and supporters of the party to continue to promote peace and ‘ refuse to be provoked by the political vampires whose stock in trade is violence in all ramifications’-Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980. Thank you