The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stop claiming that its candidate won the 2018 gubernatorial election.
The party, which also wanted the PDP to stop stating that the statement credited to Lasun Yusuff, the former Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives and Osun APC chieftain have vindicated their claims, added that their claims of election rigging was a childish and baseless allegation which is far from the reality.
The APC stressed, in a statement signed by the Osun APC spokesperson, Barrister Kunle Oyatomi and made available to journalists in Osogbo on Sunday, that the Osun PDP chairman, Sunday Bisi was still living in self delusion.
They stated that referring to Governor Adegboyega Oyetola’s electoral victory as a stolen mandate cannot make the people of the state to repeat the tragedy they experienced when the PDP was in government between 2003 and 2010.
They described the statement credited to Yusuff as one that was uncalled for, illogical and unreasonable because he was only tarnishing the image of the party that made him what he is.
While noting that the former Deputy Speaker was selfish, they maintained that Oyetola would not be distracted by the ranting of people who were good at spreading fabricated lies to mislead the public.
According to the statement, “Osun State has left the era of treasury looting and inglorious government behind as APC has taken the governance of Osun to an enviable higher pedestal.
“Osun is a no go area for the corrupt and looters in the next year July 16 governorship election. The people of the state are wiser than ever and would not be deceived again with mere blackmail and propaganda.”
Governor Oyetola, the statement emphasised, “has positively impressed the entire people of Osun in terms of good governance and it is hypocritical and nonsensical for the PDP with a legacy of bad governance to be alleging the Oyetola-led government of having no infrastructural development to show in Osun in the last three years.”
