Minister of Information and chairman of the APC media Campaign Council for the Osun governorship election, Lai Mohammed, has expressed satisfaction with the outcome of Thursday's supplementary election in the state, saying with the result, the people have emphatically pitched their tent with the ruling party.

In a statement issued in Osogbo on Thursday, Lai Mohammed on behalf of the council, congratulated the Governor-elect, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, the outgoing Governor, His Excellency Rauf Aregbesola and the entire APC family for the well deserved but hard-earned victory.

He commended INEC and the security agencies for a largely peaceful and orderly election, as attested to by local and international observers.

The Council said the biggest winner in the whole election saga is democracy, and gave the credit to the good people of Osun as well as the ruling APC, which did not hesitate to submit to the democratic process despite the high stakes.

''As we said in an earlier statement, the PDP, in its time, would not have given any room for a rerun as it would have hijacked the main election, with its brigandage, rigging and total disdain for the democratic process. But as a party of change, we believe strongly in the democratic process. We believe in the ability of the relevant institutions to carry out their assigned responsibilities and we believe in the ability of the people to do what is right. In the end, the good people of Osun did what is right by ensuring the shellacking of the PDP. This is the right thing to do, considering the impressive performance of the APC government in Osun in the last eight years,'' it said.

The Council advised the PDP to stop issuing threats and to take full advantage of the democratic process if it has any grouse with the supplementary election.

''When the PDP led in the main election, which was declared inconclusive, we did not threaten fire and brimstone, neither did we drag the International community into it. We simply went along with the prescribed process. We urge the PDP to emulate this,'' it said.

The Council also called on INEC and the security agencies to ensure that the PDP thugs, fake observers and vote buyers who were arrested during the rerun are all brought to justice expeditiously.

"He commended INEC and the security agencies for a largely peaceful and orderly election, as attested to by local and international observers..."

Meanwhile:

The missions of the United State, the European Union, and the United Kingdom have faulted the supplementary election held in Osun State on Thursday.......
“We witnessed what appeared to be incidents of interference and intimidation of voters and heard reports of harassment of party monitors, journalists and domestic observers,” US Consul-General John Bray, who spoke on behalf of the missions, told journalists........

Unlike Saturday’s poll which was considered peaceful, there were several arrests, reports of intimidation and manipulation.

Some election observers said they were prevented from moving freely or gaining access to polling units, while the Independent National Electoral Commission also expressed concern about reports it received.

https://www.channelstv.com/2018/09/27/us-eu-uk-observers-allege-interference-intimidation-in-osun-supplementary-election/?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=ChannelsTv&utm_campaign=SNAP%2Bfrom%2BChannels+Television
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“Also, despite all efforts by INEC and civic group to ensure violence-free polls, some political actors mobilized thugs and hoodlums to intimidate voters, journalists and observers.

"In the light of these anti-democratic acts, which have undermined the sanctity of the ballot therefore, we hold strongly the view that the rerun poll of Thursday, September 27, 2018 does not meet up with the minimum standards for free, fair and credible elections.

“It falls short of global best practices in democratic elections which Nigeria aspires towards. The acts of intimidation by security forces and the violence unleashed by party thugs are suggestive of an attempt to compromise the integrity the poll.

“We recommend an urgent investigation of the roles and conduct of the security forces and political thugs in the Osun rerun with a view to sanctioning infractions and preventing a repeat during the 2019 polls.”

http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2018/09/osun-rerun-cdd-gives-damning-verdict-on.html

A big shame on INEC and the APC government.

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A big shame on INEC and the APC government.

shaataap

Shame on INEC

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yarimo:
shaataap

Of course you fanatic belief with never let you see sound reasoning with these damning verdicts on a supposed "change" government.
Of course the brazen outcome will be overturned by the law court.Never allow sentiments to becloud your sense of sound judgement.

Let us judge from the supplementary election.
Apc gave Pdp 353 ahead and they still failed to get common 500 vote of the election Pdp claimed to have won.
What a shame!.
That is a prove that their 254,698 was not the reflection of the will of the good people of osun.
All those criminal observers collide with Pdp to rigged on the 22nd of September.
They even kill apc agent without the corrupt observers and corrupt media reporting the killing by Pdp thugs.

What do we expect him to say? The lier himself.