PDP Rejects INEC’s Inconclusive Declaration Of Osun Election

PDP National Publicity Secretary

The Peoples Democratic Party has rejected the Independent National Electoral Commission's presentation of Saturday's governorship decision in Osun state as uncertain. 

Pronouncing the result of the race at the INEC central command in Osogbo on Sunday, the commission's Chief Returning Officer, Professor Joseph Fuwape, reported that the PDP competitor scored 254,698 votes while his APC partner scored 254,345 votes. 

Fuwape, in any case, said that the quantity of votes in places where race was dropped kept him from pronouncing Ademola Adeleke of the PDP as the champ. 

"Tragically as the returning officer, it's impractical to pronounce anyone as the reasonable victor of the decision on the principal vote," Fuwape said. 

Be that as it may, the PDP emphatically can't help contradicting INEC. 

The gathering demands that the procedure was definitive and that its hopeful, Senator Adeleke was in clear lead and ought to be quickly pronounced champ by INEC, having met the prerequisites of the 1999 Constitution (as corrected). 

Representative for the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, said that Section 179 (2) (a)(b) of the 1999 Constitution, (as revised), was clear and exceptionally unambiguous in spelling out the conditions for restoring a contender to the workplace of legislative leader of a state. 

He stated, "A possibility for a decision to the workplace of Governor of a State will be esteemed to have been appropriately chosen where, there being at least two competitors – (a) he has the most astounding number of votes cast at the race; and (b) he has at least one-fourth of the considerable number of votes cast in each of no less than 66% of all the neighborhood government territories in the State." 

The principle resistance party said that the announcement by INEC of the decision as uncertain, was a "corrupt theft" of the establishment of the general population of Osun, who took an interest in the race.