Osun State Governor Governor ,Rauf Aregbesola has condemned the bias of security agencies against his party, the All Progressives Congress,APC even before Saturday’s election.He expressed the hope however that people will serve as his pillar of support.
He made this declaration after casting his vote”Beside the initial show of unwarranted force shown by a section of security agencies, one cannot understand why this is heavily biased against my party. Starting from 1am this morning not less than 150 of my party members have been harassed, threatened, bastardised. COMM justice and attorney general of my state was manhandled and maltreated. When you have such a discriminatory attitude such action in a democracy, this is a bastardised democracy. Let is be known that we are under the siege of gun”Aregbesola said.
“Having said this about the run up to the election, I must not fail to recognise the smooth nature of the process in my polling g centre, the people received us enthusiastically and in a very orderly manner which was void of any crisis. What I witnessed when I visited the polling centre was commendable. My hope is that what happened when I visited this polling unit is the experience state wide. It is my hope that if this is the case, we will sing a good song of the strength of democracy.
“The strength of the people in a democracy is to freely, fairly and transparently choose whoever is most appropriate to govern them, by their own judgement.
“We expect that the enthusiasm of our people is sufficient to douse the exuberance of the over zealous miscreants”.
Goodluck Jonathan Plans Declaring Omisore Governor-Elect-Group Alleges
High level security report indicates that President Goodluck Jonathan had concluded plans to declare Iyiola Omisore the candidate of the PDP the governor-elect of Osun State, Comrade Taiwo Otitolaye, Coordinator, Movement Against Electoral Fraud claimed today
“The president has vowed to damn all consequences of the aftermath of his declaration.MAEF is warning thr president to shelve his anti-democratic pursuits and allow free and fair election to be concluded.
“Can the President not learn from civilized leaders around the world” he said .
He said further,“We are making this release to expose the dangerous plan of President Jonathan because the consequences will not be limited to Osun state but the country at large
“A sensible person would have feel the pulse and atmosphere in Osun to know the over whelming support the APC candidate, Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola enjoys among the people of the state.
“Would President Goodluck Jonathan ignore genuine security report as he was advised?
“He planned a state of emergency after declaring Omisore. The whole world must not sit and watch the country thrown in to a state of anarchy because of the ambition of one man,Otitolaye said in a statement.
