Lai: PDP can go to court over any grievance with Osun rerun

The All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign council for the Osun governorship election has advised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to go to court if it has any grouse with the rerun poll.

In a statement issued in Osogbo, Lai Mohammed, chairman of the council’s media committee, expressed satisfaction with the outcome of the supplementary election.

Mohammed said with the results, the people had emphatically pitched their tent with the ruling party.

He said: “When the PDP led in the main election, which was declared inconclusive, we did not threaten fire and brimstone, neither did we drag the international community into it.

“We simply went along with the prescribed process. We urge the PDP to emulate this.”

The chairman congratulated the governor-elect, Gboyega Oyetola, the outgoing governor Rauf Aregbesola and the APC for the “well deserved but hard-earned victory”.

He also commended INEC and the security agencies “for a largely peaceful and orderly election, as attested to by local and international observers”.

He called on INEC and the security agencies to ensure that the “PDP thugs, fake observers and vote buyers” who were arrested during the rerun were all brought to justice.

Mohammed said: “As we said in an earlier statement, the PDP, in its time, would not have given any room for a rerun as it would have hijacked the main election, with its brigandage, rigging and total disdain for the democratic process.

”But as a party of change, we believe strongly in the democratic process.

“We believe in the ability of the relevant institutions to carry out their assigned responsibilities and we believe in the ability of the people to do what is right.

”In the end, the good people of Osun did what is right by ensuring the shellacking of the PDP.”