Ekiti PDP buoyed by Adeleke's victory in Osun saying it is an omen they will reclaim their mandate too

EKITI State's chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has received a big morale booster following the recent decision by the Osun State Governorship Election Tribunal to award victory to senator Ademola Adeleke and is confident it will get a similar judgement.

 

Yesterday, a three-man panel of judges  led by Justice Ibrahim Sirajo ruled that Senator Adeleke of the PDP had defeated Alhaji  Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the September 22 Osun State governorship elections. After hearing from all sides, the Osun State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja, declared that Senator Adeleke had been duly elected and should assume office as the governor of Osun State.

 

Buoyed by the verdict, Professor Kolapo Olusola, the former Ekiti State deputy governor and the PDP's gubernatorial candidate in the July 14 governorship elections in the state, has said that he too will soon reclaim his mandate at the tribunal. While congratulating Senator Adeleke, Professor Olusola described the tribunal judgement as a red signal to Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State.

 

Having lost to Governor Fayemi at the tribunal, Professor Olusola is currently in the Court of Appeal seeking to be declared governor. He added that  the PDP in Ekiti State would, by the grace of God retrieve its mandate allegedly stolen by the APC very soon and called on those occupying offices to which they were not duly elected, to get ready to quit as their days were numbered.

 

Professor Olusola said: “The stolen mandate of September 22 in Osun has been recovered and the victory of election riggers have turned pyrrhic. One of the two legs supporting election rigging in Nigeria, which is contrived inconclusive and supplementary elections has been crippled

 

“The other obnoxious leg, which is militarisation of our elections to give the ruling APC advantage over the opposition as was witnessed in the July 14, 2018, governorship election in Ekiti, will also by God’s grace be crippled in due course. Ekiti and Osun governorship elections were dress rehearsals for the unprecedented election rigging, vote buying and violence witnessed all over the country in the ongoing general elections.

 

"If lies travel for a thousand years, truth will catch up with it in one day. Today it is Osun doing poetic justice to impostors and election riggers, tomorrow it will be the turn of Ekiti people to reclaim their own stolen mandate and have the last and best laugh. Who laughs last, laughs best.

 

"Ekiti people should not despair but keep hope alive. They should be encouraged with our party’s victory in Osun against all odds."

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