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.