The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has described as “spineless, bunkum and wishy-washy”, the statement credited to the former Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon Lasun Yusuf, that “the APC didn’t win the 2018 governorship election which brought Governor Gboyega Oyetola into office”, AMILOADED reports.
Hon. Yussuff had on Thursday accused the APC of rigging the 2018 governorship election which produced Adegboyega Oyetola as the governor of Osun State.
The former lawmaker, who stated that the party lost the governorship poll, made the disclosure while speaking to newsmen at the APC national secretariat in Abuja on Thursday
However, the Osun APC, while reacting via a statement by the party’s Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, Barr. Kunle Oyatomi, said there was no iota of truth in Yussuff’s allegation.
Oyatomi stated, “The party dismissed the statement in totality, saying such claims could only come from a very desperate, dishonourable and selfish politician, seeking for public attention by misleading the citizenry.
“Hon Yusuf is seriously in need of medical examination as there is no iota of truth in his incoherent allegation, and the onus of proof is his responsibility.
“It is absurd and unthinkable that Hon Yusuf, as the former Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly could stoop so low to the extent of alleging that his party (if he’s loyal member at all) of rigged the 2018 governorship election just because he contested the party primary election and lost woefully to Gboyega Oyetola.
“Hon Lasun only contested with Mr Gboyega Oyetola and 25 others in the Osun APC primary election in all the 332 wards in the state and he, Lasun, lost the election.
“In Osun APC, we don’t follow the throng and ignore the law. So, what can be more ‘popular’ as claimed by Lasun, than where lawful members in all the wards in the state endorsed Adegboyega Oyetola as their gubernatorial candidate. Is direct primary against the party’s rules? Lasun should stop hallucinating because we followed the rules and the directives given by the party at the National Headquarters, Abuja which is in tandem with the constitution of our party as contained in Article 20.”
He added, “In primary, which is the direct, transparent and credible primary which was conducted and supervised by Senator Ovie Omo Agege, on 21st of July 2018, 27 aspirants contested, Gboyega Oyetola polled the highest votes of 127,017 and came first as against the House of Representatives’ Deputy Speaker, Hon Yusuf, who had miserable 21,000 votes and came a distant second.
“Also, in the Osun governorship election which brought Governor Oyetola into office, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate won free, fair and square to defeat his main opponent, Ademola Adeleke of the PDP. Not only that, the Supreme Court also confirmed Oyetola’s victory.
“The APC challenged Hon Lasun to come straight with the facts and figures to contradict what’s known to all Nigerians and the law of the land,” the statement read.
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