Saturday, 6 September 2014
Omisore will lose at tribunal– APC
The All Progressives Congress in Osun State has said the
governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party,
Senator Iyiola Omisore, will face disgrace at the election
petition tribunal.
The party said the PDP was manufacturing false information
in order to discredit the August 9 election which produced
Governor Rauf Aregbesola as the winner.
The party in a statement issued by its Director of Publicity,
Strategy and Research, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, therefore, urged
the people of the state not to believe the “lies” being
peddled by the PDP, saying the PDP was incapable of telling
the truth.
The APC said this while reacting to the suspension of two
electoral officers by the Independent National Electoral
Commission over alleged electoral malpractice.
The PDP had said the suspended officials helped in
manipulating the outcome of the election in favour of
Aregbesola.
However, the APC said, “The PDP and its leadership will
continue to suffer defeat and disgrace in the state for as
long as it continues to propagate deceit and lies about
goings-on in the state of the virtuous.
“The PDP has again suffered the shame of being exposed as
habitual liars in their mean attitude to political engagement
in the State of Osun. The PDP’s obsession to weave a
structure of lies to support its baseless case at the tribunal
has led the opposition party to clutching at straws and
fabricating stories to give a semblance of validity to the
tissue of lies that are behind its bogus case against Senator
Iyiola Omisore’s defeat at the August 9 governorship
election.
“Cases at election tribunals can only stand on the basis of
fact and credible figures, not on fabrication and lies that
have become the habit of the PDP. That the current lie of
the PDP against the APC and INEC has been exposed is an
ominous precursor to the imminent defeat of the party
again at the tribunal.”
The APC, however, called on INEC to carry out a thorough
investigation and prosecute the errant officials.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Police Affairs, Alhaji Jelili
Adesiyan, has said the suspension of the INEC officials was a
confirmation that the election was rigged to favour the APC.
The minister said this in a statement by his media aide, Mr.
Wale Akinola.
Adesiyan said the party was convinced that the election was
rigged in favour of the APC and that was the reason Omisore
filed a petition to challenge the election result.
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