10th August, 2014
A spokesman for the Peoples Democratic Party candidate Senator Iyiola Omisore in Osun’s election, has described as premature, the victory celebrations by supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Diran Odeyemi, director of media and strategy for the Iyiola Omisore Organisation said the APC supporters were rejoicing over ‘fake results’, concocted by the party to discredit the “final results of the governorship election”.
Results from many of the 3,379 polling points, indicated that the APC candidate Governor Rauf Aregbesola had won, except in the two local councils of Ife.
Odeyemi’s statement is similar to another one credited to former aviation minister, Femi Fani Kayode, who told Premiumtimes online that the PDP’s collation of the result put the PDP candidate ahead of the APC candidate.
“We noticed with dismay the desperate bid of the All Progressive Congress to discredit the final results of the governorship election in Osun state through publication of fake election results and celebration of false electoral victory”, Odeyemi said.
“In the last four hours, the APC has been publishing several concocted results which are clearly against the reality of certified results been collated by the electoral commission. The party had brazenly assigned itself the task of collating and announcing results which are doctored and designed to undermine the credibility of the official results when finally announced.
“By circulating fake results ,the APC intends to prove to the world that the election was rigged even when in reality the collation process was yet to start before its illegal action.
“The party has also proceeded to direct it’s supporters to commence celebration in towns and villages. Even in wards where the APC lost, the supporters followed the script by rolling out drums in celebration of a non existing victory.
“This is also part of a ploy to declare the final official results as manipulated in preparation for their usual tribunal battle. It is an elaborate plot to steal the ‘Peoples’ mandate through the backdoor as the outgoing governor did after 2007 election .
“We therefore urge our teeming supporters to ignore the fabrications of the APC. We inform Nigerians and the good people of Osun state that the PDP is leading based on results collated so far and any concerted results has no basis in facts and legality .
“We await the official results from the electoral commission and we are convinced that the final results will confirm the electoral victory of Senator Iyiola Omisore.