A human rights activist, Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman, has written to former Governor Isiaka Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State and his supporters led by the Speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Timothy Owoeye, to stop the thinking of Oyetola come back through the back door to govern the State in the next four years between November 2022 to November 2026.
Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman, Executive Chairman of Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ), noted the insinuations that Oyetola and Owoeye are staging come back to power in the State through the backdoor after losing the July 16th Governorship election to Governor Nurudeen Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Comrade Sulaiman in a statement on Tuesday, urged the All Progressive Congress (APC) leaders in the State and Oyetola to stop their evil dreaming of coming back to governance of the State for the period of the Ademola Adeleke administration. He told them to accept their loss at the July 16th,2022 Governorship election in good faith and prepare for the 2026 governorship election in Osun State.
“Thinking of manipulating the electoral and judicial process if the Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu won the Presidential election to stage come back to power through the back door cannot be fruitful for Gboyega Oyetola because the law in respect of Electoral Act 2022 has settled everything and no President can manipulate such electoral process again.
“Nigeria is not a banana republic where law would be made to satisfy the whims and caprices of Gboyega Oyetola and Bola Tinubu. For instance, all the opposition Governors the Courts ruled in their favour that lead to the conduct of staggering Governorship elections in the country today,were during the period of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidency and heaven did not fall.” The activist said.
Sulaiman declared that Governor Ademola Adeleke had started the governance of the State on good direction by uncovering all the evil deeds of the Oyetola administration that might retard the progress of the State, saying that they should instead be applauding Governor Adeleke for a humble beginning of good governance in the State, not about their wishful thinking of coming to power through the backdoor to continue their evil actions.
He therefore urged Mr. Gboyega Oyetola and his co-travelers to learn how to imbibe the spirit of sportsmanship in a race of electoral process by always accepting the election outcome in good faith, adding that Oyetola should learn the spirit of sportsmanship posture from Senator Ademola Adeleke during the manipulated 2018 Governorship election in favour of Gboyega Oyetola.