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FukkaFuka:

Anyone who wants to lose an election should Hire this Reno Omokri guy
and Fani Kayode.

Why are PDP members and followers Sore losers.

Every Election they lose is never free and fair to them.

kahal29:
A clear winner emerged yesterday in the Osun State governorship election at the close of the second ballot which held in seven units across four local government areas of the State of the Living Spring.

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) garnered enough votes to knock off the 353 votes the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led with at the close of the first ballot early Sunday morning.

After the collation of eligible ballot by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), APC candidate Gboyega Isiaka, with 254,345 votes, was trailing PDP’s Isiaka Adeleke, who polled 254, 696.

In line with constitutional provisions, the electoral umpire, declared the first ballot inconclusive and rescheduled a rerun in the seven polling centres where 3948 votes were outstanding.

The hard-earned victory of the APC at the end of yesterday’s rerun triggered a celebration in its camp and, as expected, the opposition party, after giving a fight, but not good enough to unseat the ruling party, cried blue murder, tagging yesterday as “Black Day” for the country. Its members, taking the defeat as a sentence to a four-year “shutout”, were forced to lick their wounds. Below are some of the winners and the losers.

Winners:

Osun people

The people of Osun spoke with their ballot for their preference as the next tenant at the Osun State Government House after the expiration of Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s tenure in November. They had a choice between Oyetola, a master’s degree holder in Insurance, who had understudied governance as Chief of Staff to the Osun State Governor for more than seven years. The other option was Adeleke, a senator, whose educational qualification has been an issue of controversy in recent time.

The elite

The elite took advantage of the rerun window to save the state from, according to them, being derided in the public. If the election had been won and lost on the first ballot, Osun would have set a record of becoming the first state to be administered by a governor with the least educational qualification. Before it was carved out of the Old Oyo State, Osun Division used to be the educational backbone.

INEC, Rule of law

The electoral umpire has further demonstrated its readiness for uprightness in the conduct of elections by allowing the votes of the 3948 registered voters in seven polling units where the first ballot was cancelled due to disruptions (Orolu); malfunction of Electronic Card Readers (Ife South); over voting (Ife North) and no voting) Osogbo), to count through the supplementary election.

Relying on the electoral guidelines to back the inconclusive declaration, the Returning Officer and Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) Vice Chancellor Prof Joseph Fuwape, said the margin between the two leading contestants must be in excess of the total registered voters where an election was cancelled. He said the outstanding votes could swing victory in favour of either of the two leading parties.

Oyetola

The APC candidate, now governor-elect, traversed every community to canvass for votes. With his programmes and party manifesto well-articulated, the Iragbiji-born technocrat-turned politician is expected to use the next three months in scouting for cerebral Osun indigenes who will join him in the implementation of his vision for the 27-year-old state. The task ahead for him is to bring all aggrieved party members, who left in the aftermath of his emergence as the APC standard bearer. He also has a task of playing the role of a father-to-all, irrespective of party affiliations, after his inauguration on November 27.

APC leaders

To the leadership of the APC, from President Muhammadu Buhari, party chair Adams Oshiomhole, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and governors under the auspices of the Progressives Governors’ Forum (PGF), the victory of the APC and its candidate is a dream come true.

The governors shuttled between Osogbo and their states to rally support for Aregbesola to consolidate the gains of July 14 in Ekiti State. Beside a desire to have all the six states in the zone in a single political basket, the governors’ plan was to use the isolated Ekiti and Osun elections in sending a strong message to the raging opposition on next year’s general elections.

APC stalwart Asiwaju Tinubu was in-and-out of Osun State to mobilise support for the party. Ahead of the rereun, President Buhari dispatched Ekiti State governor-elect Dr. Kayode Fayemi from United Nations (UN) 73rd General Assembly to join other party leaders in negotiating the APC into victory. The leaders met with critical stakeholders including, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate in the election, Senator Iyiola Omisore, African Democratic Party (ADP), standard bearer Moshood Adeoti and House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Yussuff Lasun, among others. Their support for the APC during the supplementary election ensured support for the ruling party.

Losers

Adeleke

The plan of the senator was to “dance” to the Osun State Government House after winning the election. But, whatever plan the Ede-born politician had, would remain in the realm of a dream, at least for now. In the run-up to the election, the senator had a running battle with the police over alleged examination malpractices. The PDP chieftains were all over the state to rally support for him. The party believed that INEC erred by not declaring Adeleke winner at the close of the first ballot.

PDP

Desperate to return to power after a four-year break, the PDP leadership planned to send a signal to the ruling party with the governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states. But with two defeats in a row, close to the general elections, the opposition party will have to return to the drawing board to draw up a new winning strategy. To it, the non-declaration of its candidate as winner, based on his showing at the first ballot, was robbery. The party described yesterday as a “Black Day” for the country because its candidate lost the election.

Saraki, Atiku

Immediately after INEC declared the first ballot inconclusive and rescheduled a rerun for Thursday, Senate President Bukola Saraki was the first to discuss with Senator Omisore. Saraki, who defected from the ruling APC to seek the presidential ticket of the PDP, has been made the “national leader” of the main opposition party. He had left Ile-Ife on Monday before another PDP presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar, visited Ile-Ife to persuade Omisore to support PDP’s Adeleke. But the bargaining power of the APC team, including Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Boss Mustapha upturned whatever assurance the duo of Saraki and Atiku got from the strongman of Ile-Ife politics.

Defectors

Some defectors, who formed “mushroom” parties to get their pound of flesh from the APC for alleged marginalisation, failed in their bid to dislodge the ruling party. Save for the APC and the PDP, the other 46 parties on the ballot had dismal showings. They may have to worm themselves back into the heart of the party that brought them to political limelight.

http://thenationonlineng.net/winners-losers-of-a-keenly-contested-poll/

Spot on. Flawless analysis

Awol1:
Pls I wanna ask one question...

Can those who voted for Buhari in 2015, hit their chest and say they are still proud of the choice they made?

Extremely Proud of myself.
and heavily mobilizing to do same in 2019

BayoOjo25:
Really dont know if to call what we had yesterday (Thursday) a rerun or run over. May the Lord help Nigeria.

It was a run over of PDP. they had it coming.

Olohunjedalo:
Are you stupid or something?
I voted for Oyetola and he won! So go to hell

Aplaudez:
it's okay, let's see!!!


I'll keep the link and qoute you back after feb 2019

he heard this pre 2015

dapelua:
you are a lair....is it not what they told you, you are telling us here or the person that told you...get out from here...

tell me your own version, you don't have to believe mine just as i wont believe whatever you eventually say

Aplaudez:
This country is in trouble!

Come 2019

what trouble? stop prophesying doom for yourself

PDP and Propaganda. Such a dull and hopeless opposition Party
this video proves nothing, these guys dont know how the court works..
he says people working for State Government beat him up. He would be asked to identify the suspects in a line up of 90,000 osun civil service workers

odomanis:
This is what you could say to a party agent who is doing his best to ensure the democratic growth of this country ?

so democracy growth is voting for PDP??

A friend confirmed he fell and hurt himself while running to catch a voter he paid to vote for PDP but he voted APC instead

My advice to Adeleke and all PDP faithfuls... lets accept the result in good faith and move on.
2022, we try again

Kennydoc:
So you're impressed with the conduct of the election today? Be honest to yourself for once.

the election was very FREE, FAIR and PEACEFUL

forayfleo:
If PDP win election it bcame inconclusive but if APC do it is conclusive why its so? To the APC fans pls answer my question.

How can you ascribe an inconclusive Election as a win for PDP

After all the thuggery, Cheating, Vote Buying, Propaganda and intimidation PDP still lost?

Congrats to all APCians

olusegzy01:
OSUN ELECTION:
If PDP wins=Democracy in Action.
If APC wins=Democracy under threats.
That's the next news to trend from now.God bless all wailers

royalamour:
18 hrs Daily. That's because of the increase in water level courtesy of the rainy season.

So you think hydro electricity supplies the whole nation.. Do you know how many gas powered Turbines are presently supplying the national Grid?

TheTrueSeeker:
The simplest way to detect a lie is in its inconsistency


50,000 caption
5,000 second line
500 finally...!!!

Why did you ignore the 500,000 at the end

I did a quick trigonometric a check on the shape of that head,
I am afraid the OP is wrong

The World Igbo Youth Council should up their game and Increase this figure to 7 or 8 Million
Buhari Has done so much for Igboland

It is over for PDP in the Southwest.

This was posted to make this TGIF miserable for some Wailers and Children of Hate, so they can drown themselves in Alcohol
this evening as they languish in utter Painment and misery

The fold of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos further swelled on Friday as many members, said to be about 5,000, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) defected to the party.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the new entrants joined the APC at an elaborate ceremony at the ACME Road secretariat of the party.

NAN reports that some 500 members of PDP had on July 3 also defected to APC in the state.

The new defectors, who are members of the United Niger Delta group were led into their new party by Gabriel Ese, the group’s leader.

They were received by the state chairman of the party, Tunde Balogun, along with some other party officials.

Mr Balogun said the party was excited to receive the new members, particularly as they were many.

He said the decision of the former PDP members to join the party reflected the growing confidence in the party.

Mr Balogun commended the new entrants for their decision to join what he called the progressives fold, assuring them that the party would do its best to give them a sense of belonging.

“We are happy that you have made the decision to join the Progressive train today and we assure you that we will do our best to make you feel at home.

“Even as you are just joining us, we have accepted you as part and parcel of the APC and we will not treat you differently.

“I assure you, you will not regret joining the APC; we shall work together like brothers and sisters to ensure that APC becomes greater than what it is today in the state,’’ he said.

Mr Balogun implored the defectors to show commitment and give their best in order to ensure victory in 2019.

The party chairman urged the new members to obtain their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) as it was the only means by which they could secure victory for the party.

Mr Balogun said the party had commenced the registration of new members nationwide and urged the new members to register to be fully integrated.

Mr Ese said he and other members of the group were delighted to leave the PDP to join “the progressive party’’.

He said the decision of the group to leave the PDP was because of the strides of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode in Lagos.

Mr Ese said they were also motivated by the charismatic leadership of the national leader of the party, Bola Tinubu, and the achievements of the APC at the national level.

“We would have joined the APC a long time ago, we love the party, we love Tinubu but because Dr Goodluck Jonathan was the then President and we thought we could not work against our Niger Delta brother.

“But after so much pressure both within the Niger Delta and outside the region to join the APC, seeing the wonders of Ambode in Lagos and the charisma of Tinubu, we finally decided to be here.

“We are pledging our full allegiance to the party because we have realised this is the party to be.

“We are so happy to be here and we will do our best to take the party to the next level,’’ he said.

Mr Ese said there were about 500,000 registered members of the group in the state and that they would be mobilized to obtain their PVCs, in order to vote for APC in the 2019 general elections.

(NAN)
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/281243-many-pdp-members-defect-to-apc-in-lagos.html

Pavarottii:
U don't know saraki. He that became Senate president cos of his onus . Just watch our he will change the timetable for election. Den hold inec to their balls cos of their budget. And win wen he has done these two things. U don't know buhari doesn't know politics. Buhari won last time cos good luck was actually tired and didn't want bloodshed.

In the National Assembly where APC is Majority and the Battle line Drawn? there would be no Breathing space for the SP once the senate reconvenes

Kog45:
It's not your business if PDP present saraki as presidential candidate

Of Course it isnt, But APC would be Glad they did

If Saraki is the leader of the Opposition in Nigeria then He should be presented as candidate for 2019 Presidency.
and watch APC glide to a smooth Flawless Victory

Abagworo:
The road is better now on the greater part but remains a death trap especially the short Rivers State axis from Eleme junction to Imo River which is less than 10 km.

The OP is clearly mischievous, At no time has the Government said it has completed the Portharcourt Enugu Expressway.
Everyone know the Imo River - Eleme stretch is still a Nightmare

dunces

How can a human Owe salaries for 10 months?
Why is PDP so recklessly Wicked?

It is Over for CUPP or PDP

Wise Decision from the Nationwide Labour Union. they all know for 3 years of PMB,s rule
The Federal Civil Service workers were never owed Salaries for a single Day all allowances were paid on time.

cimag:
The House Of Reps suspended Hon Abdulmumin Jubrin for over one year.The Senate Suspended Sen Ndume For 6 Months,all these are not PDP states.Imo House Of Assembly controlled by APC suspended their 5 fellow APC members for over 3 months now,Imo is an APC state.Foolish is your problem.

.. Okwehue!

Whaaattttttt?? With Neck Braces?? lol