Discontinue your infamous petition, APC tells Omisore osundefender.org/?p=192568 THE All Progressives Congress has urged Iyiola Omisore, the defeated PDP’s candidate in the last August 9 governorship election, to honourably discontinue his impossible mission to remove Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola from office. According to the APC, ‘Omisore’s exercise will be as futile as that of his party’s wasted effort to annul the legislative elections of 2011 in which all PDP’s candidates lost their bid to be elected into the State and National assembly. ‘From what the public has seen and heard so far, APC claimed, Omisore and the PDP appeared to be relying purely on falsehood, and not fact on the ground, and their lies are falling apart like a pack of cards. Last Friday, the Osun PDP withdrew a case seeking to declare null, the election supervised by Amb. Rufus Akeju, the State INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner in the State at the Federal High Court, Osogbo through a motion dated 15th October, 2014 and signed by their counsel, Kehinde Adesiyan Esq. Recall that the PDP, prior to 2011 election approached the Federal High Court, Osogbo for an injunction to restrain Amb. Akeju from supervising the conduct of the election and was granted, but appealed against by INEC at the Court of Appeal in Akure. The APC said the Appeal Court three weeks ago struck off INEC’s appeal due to what he termed ‘defective filing of the Notice’. Omisore and the PDP attempted to turn the ruling to a ‘judgment’ sacking all the state legislators both in Osun and Abuja. But when it became clear that the PDP couldn’t win on this falsehood, it had the case withdrawn from the Federal High Court in Osogbo last Friday. This lie was so blatant and embarrassing that even some responsible members of the PDP within and outside Osun felt sad and ashamed that so much falsehood was being associated with their party. Same with another lie that the Tribunal had ordered a recount of votes for which the tribunal chairman denied and warned the party to allow them do their job. According to the APC, the PDP appeared not to have learnt anything from the pressure of spreading deliberate falsehood. ‘This inability to learn from history is what has made the PDP and Omisore to replicate futile mission all over again, and that anything founded on falsehood will fail and the current mission of Omisore, which is fundamentally based on ignoble lie will also collapse’, the APC predicted. The party said that it was therefore in the interest of Omisore, the PDP and fledgling democracy that this mission impossible be aborted before it pollutes the democratic atmosphere. ‘The earlier Omisore comes to terms with the reality that he is just chasing shadow, the better for everybody,’ Barr. Kunle Oyatomi, Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, APC, State of Osun
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 11:57:30 +0000
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