Osun state PDP on Sunday likened what the state APC had done recently to having a homeowner questioned for putting in place a watertight security against notorious robbers that were lurking around outside his house.
Chairman of the State Caretaker Committee, Dr Adekunle Akindele noted in a statement made available to Team@orientactualmags.com on Sunday that there was nothing unusual about what the party had done adding that the PDP had only refused to take a chance and therefore decided to put up barricades to stop anyone from getting near its ‘mandate’ and ensure that the Governor-elect , Chief Ademola Adeleke takes office on November 27.
‘It is strange that known robbers enjoying state protection still possess the temerity and the audacity to attack the landlords for observing a protective vigil while under a concerted threat from a kingpin, who is notorious for his daylight burglary in recent past. It is even more puzzling when those gang leaders openly ask the homeowners to go to sleep.
We read with amusement the statement issued by the APC, let the defeated Governor and his party know that we are not in any way paranoid or worried. As the legitimate holder of mandate , we are fully set and prepared to assume the governorship on November 27, 2022.
In the interim, we are only doing what a homeowner will do – secure your property at all cost from a gang of shameless felons. It is not a crime to engage in democratic self -defence.
The whole world knows the APC for its dare -devil electoral subversion from Osun 2018 election to several other ones. As a victim of 2018 electoral robbery, we are committed to retaining and sustaining the governorship mandate of Senator Ademola Adeleke through democratic vigilance .
Apart from its record of illegally overturning peoples’ will, the APC is also variously culpable in the destabilization of opposition parties through recruitment of insiders as agents. This was recently manifested in the Babayemi’s case which has all the trademark of APC’s hatchet job.
So APC has always put fire into other peoples’ houses and it is the duty of homeowners to transform to firefighters and civil police against electoral theft.
The PDP as the winner of July 16 guber election has a sacred duty to expose and thwart all anti-people plots to subvert the will of the people including raising the alarm on the recruitment of fifth columnists within state institutions to execute hatchet jobs.
As the political party that has been declared winner with an overwhelming majority in a globally, highly -rated election, we are resolved to stop the APC widely known for its records of electoral banditry, corruption, deployment and manipulation of state apparatus in pursuance of its nefarious agenda’ the statement said.
‘We also want to put it on the record our acknowledgment of Osun state judiciary as an institution comprising professionally upright men and women of integrity who uphold the norms of judicial life and who protect their integrity in every step of their conduct.
We particularly appreciate the contributions to state governance and democratic stability of the judicial leadership by our amiable Chief Judge of Osun State and other top leaders of the bench. We restate our confidence in their passion, capacity and focus to ensure democratic stability and promote judicial integrity.
Unlike the APC that is actively undermining the judiciary especially the ongoing governorship Election Petition Tribunal, the PDP is neither engaging in media trial nor misrepresenting judicial proceedings.
The party has conducted itself every inch as a responsible partner in the judicial process.
In line with our commitment to defending and retaining our governorship mandate, we have a responsibility to cooperate in a bid to ensure seamless transition on November 27th.
In the task of securing electoral outcome, the PDP has been on the same page with the judiciary and other democratic forces. As the society wages war against Trumpists at the Government House, Abere, PDP respects and holds the judiciary in highest esteem in our defence of democracy against a band of election deniers’ the party added- Team@orientactualmags.com
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