Aregbesola gets certificate of return
Yinka Kolawole in Osogbo with agency report

The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Iyiola Omisore, has conceded defeat to Governor Rauf Aregbesola of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who was declared winner of last Saturday’s election in Osun State.

Reflecting on the outcome of the election through his media aide, Mr. Diran Odeyemi, the PDP governorship candidate said: “We would not be deterred because of the development. What we lost is the Osun State governorship election; we did not lose lives. We thank the Lord for everything.

“In all situations, I will continue to give glory to the Lord because He knows better than us and He alone has answers to all questions.”

Omisore, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), also congratulated the people of Osun State and expressed his commitment to his party and the state.

“Falling down is not new in politics, rising up is the strength of a good leader. We shall bounce back. Congratulations to the people of Osun State because we all won,” he added.
Omisore, however, declined to congratulate Aregbesola.

Meanwhile, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday presented the certificate of return to Aregbesola.
The ceremony which took place at the INEC office in Osogbo was attended by the Heads of security agencies in the state, traditional rulers, representatives of political parties and well wishers.

Presenting the certificate to the governor-elect and incumbent governor, the INEC National Commissioner deployed to supervise the election, Muhammad Wali, said the presentation was in accordance with the 2010 Electoral Act as amended, which stipulates that certificate of return should be given to any governor-elect within seven days of the election.

In his acceptance speech, Aregbesola, who dedicated the certificate to the people of the state for their commitment, sacrifice and support before and during the election, vowed not to relent in his efforts at developing the state.
He enjoined officials of the commission to be extra vigilant in securing election materials used for the August 9 governorship poll so as not to be tampered with.

While congratulating all other contestants in the governorship race, Aregbesola enjoined them to support his administration towards advancing the interest of the state.

Earlier in a welcome address, the state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr. Olusegun Agbaje, appreciated the cooperation of all stakeholders and promised that INEC would continue to create a level-playing field for all the political parties, especially as the 2015 general election approaches.
However, the state chapter of the APC has told Omisore that he was not sincere about the result of the election and how he suffered a humiliating defeat.

Omisore was reported to have said his defeat was due to the damage done to him and his party by Ambassador Rufus Akeju, a former Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state.

Omisore in his post-election statement had noted: ‘’We had a situation where a clearly partisan REC had opened the entire electoral system to our opponent from registration stage through data storage to personnel loading. Before he left, he already did a lot of harm in the system that would take years to rectify’.”

But the APC spokesman Kunle Oyatomi said: “To accuse INEC and Akeju especially is the hallmark of a man in delusional stupor. It means he has not been able to climb down from his high horse of living a lie.”
The APC spokesman stressed that Omisore lost fair and square because the people rejected him for his notoriety as an individual disposed to violence.

Oyatomi also noted that he Omisore offered nothing to the people except to promise the destruction of everything the people were enjoying from Aregbesola’s administration, saying he presented himself to the people as a destroyer, not a builder and in the process he instilled fears in the heart of Osun people.

He alleged that “in spite of all the security apparatus of the Nigerian state put at his disposal and that of the PDP in Osun by President Goodluck Jonathan; and in spite of all the terrorist marksmen from Bayelsa State brought to Osun by Mujajid Dokubo-Asari and Tompolo; and the army of thugs within the state available to Omisore and the PDP, they could neither persuade, nor intimidate the good people of Osun to vote for them to win.”

Oyatomi further stressed that he hoped the committee Omisore set up to find out why he lost the election will detect the fraud and the lie in which they had lived, deluding themselves that Aregbesola was ‘unpopular’ in the state.
He pointed out that Omisore himself knew at that critical moment he was about to cast his vote that the odds were against him.


www.thisdaylive.com/articles/omisore-accepts-defeat/186221/

Ok.

Omisore just can't win an election in Osun...

Bounce back? For where?

Dude is dead politically.

WHAT A DEAD END FOR THE MAN OF CORN

Looking forward to that period when as an elected official, you lose your current position when you go contest for another post!! What we have right now is like one eating their cake and still having it!!!

hazyfm: WHAT A DEAD END FOR THE MAN OF CORN

It appears this picture and his killing. Of Ige are the only things the world would remember him for!!

Smh.

hazyfm: WHAT A DEAD END FOR THE MAN OF CORN

Never liked that guy for once!

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Omisore “Falling down is not new in politics, rising up is the strength of a good leader. We shall bounce back. Congratulations to the people of Osun State because we all won,”

You did not fall down, you have always been down


Omisore, however, declined to congratulate Aregbesola.


He's congratulations is Inconsequential as long as humanity is concerned.

Genes1s:

Rice wey dOn digest already

I laugh at some comments here.

If you say Omisore is a looser in Osun then you are myopic.

“The spokesperson of DSS, Madam Maryln Oga insisted today that an APC Chieftain offered a sum of N4m to the DSS Head of Operations in the Osun State election and another N10m for the hooded guys of the Service”. Why, APC, Just to win by all means

Fashola 2nd term election in 2011 was a work-over, because he performed in his 1st term. Aregbesola policies almost make him loose the Osun election.

Firefire: Extract from the post:

APC is Antediluvian (Ancient, Primitive)

They came up with such ludicrous allegations as ballot-papers with disappearing ink. One thing is clear; the APC does not recognize any election that it loses. Moreover, the APC cries wolf in every election it is going to lose, or is afraid to lose.


APC clearly does not believe in democracy or in the democratic process. It is the party of threats and blackmail. It is the party of Muhammadu Buhari; who says the dogs and the baboon will be soaked in blood if the 2015 election is rigged. It is the party of Bola Tinubu, who declared that in Ekiti it will be “rig and roast.” It is the party of Murtala Nyako, who says there will be civil war if Goodluck Jonathan runs for president in the next election.

A dishonest party will tend to presume dishonesty in others, especially when it discovers that its traditional channels for manipulating elections have been blocked.

Therefore, the APC needs to tell Nigerians how it managed to rig the Osun election. Otherwise, Lai Mohammed, John Odigie-Oyegun and the entire APC party-apparatus owe Nigerians, the PDP and INEC a big apology for maligning virtually everybody just because it was running scared of losing in Osun.

Why then should the APC be so afraid of losing Osun if it were not for the fact that, instead of growing stronger, the party is actually growing weaker

The truth is that it is all a figment of APC’s anti-democratic imagination. APC bigwigs are not only sore-losers, they are sore-candidates. Such temperament is not needed in today’s new dispensation.

https://www.nairaland.com/1853600/how-apc-lost-osun-election#25410100

Omisore cannot win any election in Osun state whether through rigging or in a free and fair contest. The only way Omisore can win election in his state is if he is contesting against GEJ where his people will consider him first as an Indigene of the state against GEJ who is from Bayelsa and Ijaw by tribe.

barcanista: Omisore “Falling down is not new in politics, rising up is the strength of a good leader. We shall bounce back. Congratulations to the people of Osun State because we all won,”

You did not fall down, you have always been down


Omisore, however, declined to congratulate Aregbesola.


He's congratulations is Inconsequential as long as humanity is concerned.

With this kind of ignorant statements you are blindly making, politics will continue to be a do-or-die affair in Nigeria.

What happened to objectivity...?

Omi-sore-rake, where i come from, this is not how we say congratulation to someone who has walloped us in a contest. We simply walk up to the winner, bow our head and say 'you are a man; you won' and shake hand with the winner of the election in dis case just like fayemi did.

Firefire: I laugh at some comments here.

If you say Omisore is a looser in Osun then you are myopic.

“The spokesperson of DSS, Madam Maryln Oga insisted today that an APC Chieftain offered a sum of N4m to the DSS Head of Operations in the Osun State election and another N10m for the hooded guys of the Service”. Why, APC, Just to win by all means

Fashola 2nd term election in 2011 was a work-over, because he performed in his 1st term. Aregbesola policies almost make him loose the Osun election.

that courtesan called marylin oga is just running her mouth becos she was paid higher money compared to what she alleged that the apc paid them.

Firefire: I laugh at some comments here.
If you say Omisore is a looser in Osun then you are myopic.
“The spokesperson of DSS, Madam Maryln Oga insisted today that an APC Chieftain offered a sum of N4m to the DSS Head of Operations in the Osun State election and another N10m for the hooded guys of the Service”. Why, APC, Just to win by all means
Fashola 2nd term election in 2011 was a work-over, because he performed in his 1st term. Aregbesola policies almost make him loose the Osun election.

Sorry Sir but where in Madam Ogar interview did she mention APC has been that party that offered DSS the said bribe? she said

“The rejection of the money is bringing up a lot of misunderstanding between political parties and the DSS, it is unfortunate. I want to tell you, there is a big man occupying a very sensitive position in Osun State, the man should thank his God that it is not the DSS that arrested him with the huge sum of money he was found with.”

So tell me where she said APC try to bribe her, it would be any of the political party, be objective whenever you want to criticise any political party.

caseless: that courtesan called marylin oga is just running her mouth becos she was paid higher money compared to what she alleged that the apc paid them.

Maybe, maybe not.

Firefire:


Maybe, maybe not.

she's a thief too.