The Osun governorship election was held on July 16, and the All-Progressives Congress (APC) claims it intends to appeal the results before the electoral petition tribunal.
This was said at a news conference held by Mr. Gboyega Famodun, the state’s APC chairman, on Thursday at the party’s headquarters in Osogbo.
According to Famodun, the decision was made as a result of the party lawyers’ guarantees that, after carefully reviewing the findings, there were solid grounds for contesting them.
“We are going to the tribunal. Our lawyers had informed us that we have good reasons to challenge the results of the election at the tribunal,” he said.
He condemned the alleged anti-party activities of The Osun Progressive (TOP), an APC group in the state.
The faction, led by former governor and interior minister Rauf Aregbesola, the chairman claimed, collaborated with the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to contest the APC’s electoral triumph.
“The recent protest by the group, calling for his removal as the party’s chairman and the restructuring of the party, after they openly supported the PDP candidate, Sen. Ademola Adeleke, during the governorship election was shameful and wicked.
“Our position is that the protest was shameful, callous, primitive, selfish, wicked, misplaced and inconsiderate for the Aregbesola supporters, who glaringly worked against the success of Gov. Oyetola at the polls, to now be canvassing restructuring of the party through a sponsored protest.
“Assuming without conceding that there are challenges within the party, the protesters and their patron should know that they lack moral right to either suggest or effect any likely solution for the restructuring of our party, as it is on record that they massively and collectively worked against Oyetola.
“Since members of the factional group (TOP) people, had done their worst by working assiduously and conscientiously by teaming up with the PDP for the success of Adeleke, which is the highest level of an anti-party activity that can be committed by any politician, it will be a needless venture to enter into any pact with the group that is bereft of honour,” he said.
The state leadership of the party passed a Voters of Confidence on Governors Gboyega Oyetola and Famodun, which was one of the briefing’s highlights.
InsightnaijaTV the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced on July 17 that Sen. Ademola Adeleke of the PDP had received 403,371 votes, making her the winner of the Osun governorship race.
With 375,027 votes, APC governor Gboyega Oyetola finished in a distant second.
