THE Segun Oni Campaign Organisaton, on Sunday, rejected the outcome of Saturday’s governorship election saying it is unacceptable.

The independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had declared candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr Biodun Oyebanji as winner of Saturday’s election.

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Oyebanji polled 187,057 to defeat candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Mr Segun Oni, who scored 82,211, while candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Bisi Kolawole scored 67,457.

But reacting to the outcome of the exercise, spokesman of the campaign organization, Mr Moses Jolayemi, in a chat with Vanguard, accused the APC of engaging in vote buying.

He also accused security agencies of compromise during the election.

Besides, he said the SDP candidate will not concede defeat saying the party will meet to take necessary steps.

Jolayemi said: “The outcome is unacceptable by us as a party because it is a travesty of democracy, it is a rape on democracy and clear daylight robbery, the APC has taken advantage of the peoples’ pathetic state of poverty and that is why you see that the APC refused to campaign. They were not going round doing rallies; we were the ones campaigning because they knew what they wanted to do.

“Their strategy was simple: buy these peoples’ votes and that is why they kept the people in perpetual poverty so that they can be of use every four years.

They know that it is difficult for someone who is very hungry to resist cash. Some of them have children that are of voting age; some have four children plus their wife and themselves. “If you multiply N5000 by six, it gives you N30,000, which is a huge amount to these people.

“To make these kind of money huge and important, that is why they (APC) have kept them in that financial bondage.

In the United States of America, for example, it will be foolhardy for anyone o envelope $10 or $20 for people to vote.

“They will be asking you if you are okay or if you have not gone crazy because what are they going to do with it?

“The basic things of life have been taken of by the government but here, their dignity is already taken off them with the way the APC has kept them.

“The security agencies compromised. The see and buy thing was going on while the security agencies looked the other way.

INEC is also culpable because the arrangement of the polling booth and the ballot boxes was awkward. You wonder why this should be so. The election may appear free nut it was not fair.

It was not free of violence anyway because the third thing they did, was to make use of their thugs.

“We have videos of some of their thugs snatching ballot boxes. What did the security agents do, they looked the other way.”

When asked whether the SDP will be approaching the tribunal to seek redress, he said: “The decision will be taken in the next few hours. We are going to meet but the central message here is that this election is rejected. Segun Oni is not accepting the results, he is not conceding and he is not congratulating anybody because this is not an election”

KashApp:
I voted Chief Segun Oni but since our people sold their votes, then congratulations to BAO. What is important is for our state to move forward. I pray BAO be a blessing to the state and perform wonderfully well. Chief Segun Oni as an elder should support him for the betterment of the state and the people.

MikoB:
It is when the nigerian people are ready that all these nonsense will stop, if not we should keep enjoying it,most Nigerians don't like good people, that is why you didn't see protest on the streets after what happened in pdp and apc's primaries, if these politicians see that people are really ready, they will stop taken you for granted, they created poverty so that they can keep enslaving the population.

MikoB:
It is when the nigerian people are ready that all these nonsense will stop, if not we should keep enjoying it,most Nigerians don't like good people, that is why you didn't see protest on the streets after what happened in pdp and apc's primaries, if these politicians see that people are really ready, they will stop taken you for granted, they created poverty so that they can keep enslaving the population.

NgeneUkwenu:


This Osinbajo boy, can wail for Africa. That Judas Osinbajo loss, really pain am wella

KashApp:
I voted Chief Segun Oni but since our people sold their votes, then congratulations to BAO. What is important is for our state to move forward. I pray BAO be a blessing to the state and perform wonderfully well. Chief Segun Oni as an elder should support him for the betterment of the state and the people.

buckeyemedia:
Why will it pain him, it is not as if you are going to benefit anything more than him for Bola Tinubu aka Jagaban winning?

You are just gloating in yourself delusion.

Onyipk:


This is the kind of speech that has kept Nigeria where it is today. We all know peace is needed but sitting continuously on kegs of gun powder will only lead to explosion someday.

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https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/06/ekiti-gov-poll-unacceptable-jolayemi-segun-onis-spokesman/amp/