“It was brazenly rigged!” – Adeleke kicks against result of Osun election re-run
Osun State governorship aspirant Senator Ademola Adeleke has rejected the result of the election re-run.
The election which would confirm the state’s next governor between Adeleke and APC’s Gboyega Oyetola was marred by reports of inadequacies at some polling units and their environs – particularly Orolu LGA.
Some of the party’s supporters alleged that they were harassed, intimidated and prevented from voting by political thugs allegedly acting on behalf of the APC.
INEC has not announced the result, but early projections put APC in clear lead.
Adeleke, in a statement through the spokesperson for the Adeleke Campaign Organisation, Mr Olawale Rasheed, vowed to seek legal redress in court. He alleged that the election was brazenly rigged.
The statement released shortly after the conclusion of the exercise on Thursday, read:
“We report to the whole world the brazen theft and daylight swindling of Osun people who were criminally denied their rights to vote and be voted for by an anti-people conspiracy among INEC, security agencies and the ruling All Progressive Congress. An unprecedented travesty of justice and the shattering of democratic values are ongoing in Osun state.
“The whole world is witnessing a charade in the name of an election, a deliberate effort at the imposition of a discredited leadership on the suffering people of Osun State through undisguised brutal force, applying all standards, today’s supplementary poll is a non-event as all norms of electoral process were violated.
“Voters are deliberately refused access to polling points at gun points. Those allowed to voting centres are forced to vote for APC.PDP party agents are arrested, beaten up and shut out of polling centres. PDP agents are barred from many units. Roads are blocked to stop voters and observers.
“Journalists and election monitors are blocked from accessing many voting areas. Those who attempted gaining access are attacked by hooded thugs. PDP leaders are hounded and arrested. It was a brutal unleashing of force against unarmed election stakeholders.”
