The Osun State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the decision by the All Progressives Congress and the Governor of Osun State, Mr Gboyega Oyetola to approach the Election Tribunal aftermath of their defeat at the polls as a wasteful voyage and an exercise in futility.



In a statement by the Caretaker Committee of the Osun State Chapter of the PDP, Dr Akindele Adekunle, the Party condemned the step embarked upon by Governor Gboyega Oyetola and the APC as anti-people and a challenge of God’s will, stating that the mandate given to the Osun State Governor-elect, Senator Ademola Ademola by the overwhelming majority of Osun people has come to stay.

The Party further stated that while it is yet to be served with any election petition, we posited that neither the party nor the Governor-elect is worried by the alleged petition as the election that produced the winner was adjudged to be of global democratic compliance.

This just concluded election passes test of best practices in electoral processes with the effective application of the electoral act which shut down all rigging plots and schemings of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the party Chief posited.

The Caretaker Chairman stated that the Party is not afraid of any election petition as the Legal Team of the PDP are always ready to defend whatever petition the APC is bringing, reiterating that the petition would be dead on arrival anytime it comes.

The Party therefore assures its teeming loyalists, supporters and the good people of Osun State that there is no cause for alarm.

The State Chairman of the APC, Prince Gboyega Famodun had at a press conference in Osogbo announced that the APC and Oyetola will be approaching the election petition tribunal to challenge the victory of Adeleke.

https://insightlinks.net/osun-apc-aregbesola-allies-lack-moral-right-to-demand-restructuring-state-chair/

It is still doing Oyetola like dream. We rejected your party not you in Osun State. The same way we are going to reject Tinubu and his islamisation agenda next year.

BREAKING: Osun APC, Oyetola take INEC, PDP, Adeleke to tribunal

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress and Governor Adegboyega Oyetola have concluded plans to drag the Independent National Electoral Commission, the People’s Democratic Party and its candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke to the Elections Petitions Tribunal.



Chairman of the party, Prince Gboyega Famodun disclosed this at a press conference held at the Party secretariat in Osogbo, the State capital on Thursday.



Famodun said the counsels to the Party and that of Governor Adegboyega Oyetola have concluded plans and will be approaching the court.

He added that the lawyers have told them that “we have strong case and we believe we will win at the court.”



The INEC had declared Adeleke as the winner of the governorship election held on Saturday July 16, 2022. The PDP candidate polled over 403,000 votes to defeat Oyetola who had about 375,000 votes.

Details later…


https://insightlinks.net/breaking-osun-apc-oyetola-drags-inec-pdp-adeleke-to-tribunal/

iSense247:
It is still doing Oyetola like dream. We rejected your party not you in Osun State. The same way we are going to reject Tinubu and his islamisation agenda next year.

yes soo. Tinubu will be rejected in all the south west states on February 25th, 2023 for using Muslim-Muslim ticket in APC. Besides APC will first been defeated in Osun State on February 25th,2023 before other states in the south west are defeated by Pdp in the region. For us in Osun State, it’s Atiku/Okowa presidency we stand.

Osun APC: Aregbesola, Allies lack moral right to demand restructuring – State Chairman

Prince Gboyega Famodun, the Osun State Chairman of The All Progressive Congress (APC) has said Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola immediate past governor of the state and members of the Osun Progressives (TOP), lack moral right to demand Restructuring of the Party.

Famodun said this during a press briefing at the party Secretariat in Osogbo on Thursday. He accused Aregbesola and allies of working for the emergence of Senator Ademola Adeleke, candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in the just concluded governorship election.

Some members of the Osun Progressives on Tuesday stormed streets of Osogbo to demand for restructuring of the Party. They called on the national working committee to remove the State Chairman as part of the restructuring.

Famodun said, “the protesters and their patron should know that they lack moral right to either suggest or effect any likely solution for the restructuring of our party as it is on record that they massively and collectively worked against Oyetola, the APC governorship candidate in the just-concluded election in line with the series of their threats”.

“Was it not after they were rebuffed and outrightly rejected by the PDP which pungently refused them patronages after the governorship election as it was witnessed by the composition of its Transition Committee membership that they thought of coming back into the party with a sing-song of restructuring?”.

“One would have thought that the appropriate place for Aregbesola and his group to canvass for the restructuring of any party is Senator Ademola Adeleke’s Ede country home whom they voted for with flaunted pride”.

“If we may ask, at what point did it occur to Aregbesola and his rebellious followers that the political party that they had abandoned for about three years which they have been working against needs restructuring?” He said.



Speaking further, Prince Gboyega said “since they, the TOP people, had done their worst by working assiduously and conscientiously by teaming up with the PDP for the success of Adeleke, which is the highest level of an anti-party activity that can be committed by any politician. it would be a needless venture to enter into any pact with the shameless political group that is bereft of honour” he added.

“It would be foolhardy to allow identified enemies who had worked for the success of an opposition an unfettered chance in our domain” he concluded.

Speaking further, the party chairman said they have instituted a committee to look into the activities of some TOP leaders, with a view to activate appropriate sanctions against them.

“We have instituted a committee. All ward chairmen will write reports about the activities of these TOP leaders and the State shall work on the reports.”

He also hinted that the APC and Governor Adegboyega Oyetola will be heading to the Election Petition Tribunal to challenge the Adeleke’s victory.

“We have concluded plans. We’re going to the Elections Petitions Tribunal. Our lawyers have told us that we have good cases.” He said.



Famodun and other party chieftains during the conference


https://insightlinks.net/osun-apc-aregbesola-allies-lack-moral-right-to-demand-restructuring-state-chair/

9jahotblog:
yes soo. Tinubu will be rejected in all the south west states on February 25th, 2023 for using Muslim-Muslim ticket in APC. Besides APC will first been defeated in Osun State on February 25th,2023 before other states in the south west are defeated by Pdp in the region. For us in Osun State, it’s Atiku/Okowa presidency we stand.

After a Fulani man in presidency for eight years, you still want to look for another Fulani man to continue for another eight years. Is it Igbos you hate or Nigeria? Why not obedient?

PERSPECTIVE: Hubris, Not Poisoned Chalice, Cost Governor Oyetola Re-election



By SOLA FASURE



I write to disagree with the cerebral Prof Jide Osuntokun’s column of Thursday July 21, 2022 titled “The Election in Osun: Case of Poisoned Chalice.” The author wrote, among others, that it was the former governor of the state and now Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola’s mis-governance, that cost Governor Gboyega Oyetola re-election, citing Aregbesola’s antecedents as governor and post-office relationship with the incumbent.



Prof Osuntokun is a father to me and I hold him in a very high regard but I disagree with him on virtually all counts on his narrative on the Osun election. I will re-examine some of the points he raised and explain why Governor Oyetola lost the election to the PDP.



Prof Osuntokun raised the issue of loans that Aregbesola took and the modulated salary structure he introduced to mitigate the shortfall in revenue, as partly responsible for Governor Oyetola’s fall. This is not correct. There was a global financial crisis which hit Nigeria circa 2015 and lasted till 2017. This brought about shortfall in revenue as oil price dipped to $25 before rebounding. Osun’s income from all sources (like other states) during this period suffered a catastrophic reduction and could not have been sufficient to pay salaries, even without the deductions for loans. Though the deductions exacerbated the situation, it was not the cause.



Prof Osuntokun accused Aregbesola of taking over private mission schools, imposed the wearing of hijab in schools, changed the Gregorian calendar to the Islamic calendar and left with a legacy of covert Islamisation of the state. These are all false. Aregbesola NEVER TOOK OVER ANY MISSION SCHOOL IN OSUN! The schools were taken over in 1974 for Universal Primary Education (UPE) by the then Federal Military Government.



Hijab came up in Aregbesola’s first term when some Muslims sued the state government on the need to have their girls in public schools cover their heads according to Islamic demand. The heads of some public schools founded by the missionaries rejected this request on the ground that hijab was not part of their prescribed school uniforms. Before giving judgement, the court had ruled that the status quo ante on hijab be maintained – where hijab had been introduced, they should let it be and where it had not, it should not – until the determination of the case. The Muslims eventually won their case in court and the state government was not involved in any way, other than as a defendant. The Christians were not a party and only asked to be joined in the case.



Aregbesola DID NOT CHANGE THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR TO THE ISLAMIC CALENDAR in Osun. The state government only granted a public holiday on the 1st day of the Islamic calendar, just as it granted a public holiday for Isese Day, for traditional religious worshippers. It will, therefore, be far-fetched to argue that granting a public holiday to Muslims amounts to reverting to the Gregorian calendar in their favour.



Aregbesola’s administration during the two terms he enjoyed had more Christians than Muslims as cabinet members and political appointees. There was no accusation of Islamisation, other than the short-lived hijab brouhaha. Indeed, it was Aregbesola that gave a building to the Christians as chapel in the Government House. Till today, the Muslims have no mosque there.



Truth be told, APC’s loss on Saturday July 16 did not come as a surprise to anyone involved in the election. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate arrived in Osogbo on Monday to campaign for the governor in the Saturday election. Given the lukewarm reception the campaign train received – the use of only half of the Osogbo stadium for the grand finale of their campaign and the absence of an enthusiastic crowd to greet them on the streets – what was meant to be a ‘mega rally’ derisively in Osun became a ‘meagre rally.’ I believe Asiwaju, who is a master of the game, would be under no illusion that Governor Oyetola was in for a swell time at the poll.



Governor Oyetola lost the re-election bid due to unmitigated hubris and outstanding political naivety, and not Aregbesola. Though, he could have won if his predecessor had openly supported him. You contest for an executive position on the ground that you will solve the problems you inherited and do better than your predecessor, not that you will use your predecessor as an excuse for your own failure. After four years of being in the saddle, you contest for your re-election on your own strength, not the weakness of your predecessor.



Governor Oyetola had a whole term to prepare for his re-election, but he spent it fighting his predecessor. He surrounded himself with sycophants and people who enthusiastically joined him in fighting Aregbesola.



Then he destroyed his party. He created a ‘for-us’ versus ‘against-us’ dichotomy in APC as the party structures practically dissolved into his own Ileri Oluwa and the Aregbesola-leaning TOP caucuses. So, there was no machinery for him to use to campaign and win his re-election. He fore-swore any need for inclusion, excluding anyone not in his Ileri Oluwa caucus from government and party offices. He capped this division by arresting and prosecuting members of the TOP caucus in his own party and sponsoring vicious attacks on their persons and property.



A political party is an amalgamation of interests and tendencies, some of which are competing with each other. But when election beckons, a wise incumbent will go on charm offensive, mending fences, unifying his party and go to the polls with a united front. Having attained this, he will take further steps to recruiting from opposition parties to his own. But till the last moment, the governor refused to reconcile with Aregbesola or his supporters, buoyed by the belief that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, his paperweight allies and the power of vote buying would get him a re-election.



If Aregbesola’s policies had angered Osun people, he would not have been re-elected. But he won his re-election in 2014 by more than one hundred thousand votes, which had never happened before or after, defeating the federal might of the huge sums of money and security armada unleashed on Osun during the election. In 2018, Aregbesola was still able to rally APC to win the governorship election in spite of the fact that the candidate was from a controversial constituency that had dominated, if not monopolised, the guber office for about 12 years to the chagrin of Osun West that only had 18 months shot at the office. This fact polarised the party and cost it the votes in the Iwo stronghold among others.



Regrettably, APC’s successive three election cycle victory in Osun has come to an end under the governor’s watch.



We shall see what the verdict of history would be on this.





http://www.osundefender.com/perspective-hubris-not-poisoned-chalice-cost-governor-oyetola-re-election/

iSense247:
After a Fulani man in presidency for eight years, you still want to look for another Fulani man to continue for another eight years. Is it Igbos you hate or Nigeria? Why not obedient?

you will still vote for Atiku/Okowa presidency. I know you obi fan’s very well. On Atiku/Okowa mandate and presidential bid we stand.

Effort in futility

9jahotblog:
you will still vote for Atiku/Okowa presidency. I know you obi fan’s very well. On Atiku/Okowa mandate and presidential bid we stand.

To make 16 years of Fulani government

Is Nigeria made for Fulani herdsmen?

Could it be because of your hatred for Igbos? Think about it again.

Everyone knows these people have no case to begin with

Face saving mission ... failure!

Pepper dem!

Na so!

I will eat the fruit of the land in Pdp, so I’m casting my votes for Atiku/Okowa presidency. The best ticket so far