Ignore Jittery PDP, Gear Up For Rerun, APC Charges Osun Voters

The APC Campaign Council for the Osun Governorship Election has
urged the party’s members in the areas where the state’s election
rerun will be held on Thursday to ignore the rantings of the PDP
and turn out en masse to vote for the ruling party.

In a statement in Abuja by the Chairman of the Council’s Media
Committee, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Council said the threat by the
PDP to challenge, in court, INEC’s declaration of last Saturday’s
election as inconclusive is nothing but sheer bravado, especially
as the opposition party is afraid of losing the rerun.

It said the PDP may also have contrived the court threat as a
way of distracting the APC and its members ahead of the rerun,
calling that distraction strategy dead on arrival.

”The PDP knows that the so-called court challenge which it has
threatened to mount will not fly, especially because the highest
court in the land has already pronounced on the issue of whether or
not INEC has the powers to declare an election inconclusive.

”The PDP is not unaware of the pronouncement of the Supreme
Court in the case of James Abiodun Faleke Vs INEC and others, that
INEC has the duty of conducting elections and that, besides the
constitutional provisions, it is guided by the Electoral Act 2010
(as amended) and the Election Guidelines and Manual issued for its
officials in
accordance with the Act,” the Council said.

It said that since the PDP had boasted that its candidate will
win if the Osun Governorship Election is conducted over and over
again, the party should stop being jittery and put its money where
its mouth is by willingly participating in the rerun.

The Council said, however, that if the PDP chooses to boycott
Thursday’s rerun out of fear, the party’s right to do so will be
respected.

”The PDP, after its failed mission to win Saturday’s election at
all cost, is shopping for an illegal shortcut to victory by
threatening a court action over an issue that has been settled.
It’s a sheer waste of time. Let the PDP drop its pretension and get
ready to be defeated in Thursday’s rerun. Alternatively, it can
withdraw to save face,” the Council said.

The APC Campaign Council for the Osun Governorship Election has
urged the party’s members in the areas where the state’s election
rerun will be held on Thursday to ignore the rantings of the PDP
and turn out en masse to vote for the ruling party.

In a statement in Abuja by the Chairman of the Council’s Media
Committee, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Council said the threat by the
PDP to challenge, in court, INEC’s declaration of last Saturday’s
election as inconclusive is nothing but sheer bravado, especially
as the opposition party is afraid of losing the rerun.

It said the PDP may also have contrived the court threat as a
way of distracting the APC and its members ahead of the rerun,
calling that distraction strategy dead on arrival.

”The PDP knows that the so-called court challenge which it has
threatened to mount will not fly, especially because the highest
court in the land has already pronounced on the issue of whether or
not INEC has the powers to declare an election inconclusive.

”The PDP is not unaware of the pronouncement of the Supreme
Court in the case of James Abiodun Faleke Vs INEC and others, that
INEC has the duty of conducting elections and that, besides the
constitutional provisions, it is guided by the Electoral Act 2010
(as amended) and the Election Guidelines and Manual issued for its
officials in
accordance with the Act,” the Council said.

It said that since the PDP had boasted that its candidate will
win if the Osun Governorship Election is conducted over and over
again, the party should stop being jittery and put its money where
its mouth is by willingly participating in the rerun.

The Council said, however, that if the PDP chooses to boycott
Thursday’s rerun out of fear, the party’s right to do so will be
respected.

”The PDP, after its failed mission to win Saturday’s election at
all cost, is shopping for an illegal shortcut to victory by
threatening a court action over an issue that has been settled.
It’s a sheer waste of time. Let the PDP drop its pretension and get
ready to be defeated in Thursday’s rerun. Alternatively, it can
withdraw to save face,” the Council said.