Osun Rerun: PDP candidate rejects result

Sen. Ademola Adeleke, the PDP candidate in Osun guber election has rejected the result of the Thursday rerun even before INEC announces the winner.

The APC candidate Gboyega Oyetola has been recording landslide victories in Ife South, Orolu, Ife north, and other wards where the rerun took place.

But Adeleke, through the spokesman of his campaign organisation, described the rerun as travesty of justice.

He vowed to go to court.

According to him, the PDP supporters were harassed, intimidated and prevented from voting in some of the units while describing the exercise as a sham.

“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.”