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