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 The controversy trailing the conduct of the re-run Offa Local Government Area poll in Kwara State at the weekend, took another dimension as one of the elected councillors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Shawo South-west ward, Hon. Jimoh Olawole, denounced being elected as the councillor of the ward. He said: “I am and was a bonafide member of PDP during the August 31 re-run Offa local government area but I did not win the election.” Speaking at a press conference in Offa yesterday, Olawole said: “I cannot take what does not belong to me because the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the ward, Hon. Adefioye Kayode won the election.” According to him, “I want to tell the whole world that in all the eight polling units of Sawo South-west Ward of Offa local government council of Kwara State, the PDP lost the ward, while the APC won the ward in a landslide victory during the re-run poll.” He said out of the 1,542 votes cast at the ward during the re-run, the APC scored 1,171 votes, while PDP polled 361 votes. Olawale added that “a son of Offa, I can’t sacrifice my conscience for any electoral victory. The state independent electoral body should release the authentic results of the election to the real winner of the re-run poll in person of APC in my ward.” He said: “It is only three years, if there is going to be change in Offa, it has to be gradual because the people of Offa want APC and should be given to them without further delay.” Also yesterday, a Presiding Officer during the election, Mr. Oyetunji Akeem, said: “The election declared at polling 006 unit of Shawo Central ward by the state electoral body was fake.” According to him, “We accredited 237 voters during the re run election, out of which 206 came for voting.” He said out of the 206 voters that came to vote, the APC had 130 votes, PDP polled 73 votes for the chairmanship poll, while in the councillorship poll, APC polled 132 votes and PDP polled 67 votes. “I can say it anywhere that the results released by the state’s electoral body was doctored and fake and this is not good for nation’s democracy,” he added. However, the chairmanship candidate of the APC in the election, Hon. Saheed Popoola, also said the party would challenge the outcome of the election before appropriate court. “The state electoral body has stolen our mandate for the PDP and we will not rests on our oars until victory is achieved on the issue. We are rejecting the election results declared by the state electoral body because the result was reprehensible and shocking and people of Offa did not vote for PDP during the re-run poll,” he said. But in his reaction, the Chairman of the PDP in Offa local government area, Mr. Goke Rabiu, dismissed Olawale’s remarks, stating that: “Jimoh Olawale, who claimed to be the PDP councillorship candidate for Shawo South-west ward of Offa was dropped before the re-run election because of was not part of those who secured a court judgment for rerun.” He, however, said Olawale has since joined APC and was part of their pre-election rally in Offa.
Posted on: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 11:26:28 +0000
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