Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has expressed gratitude to the people of the state and celebrated the victory of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the just concluded state assembly election.
The PDP had won 25 state constituencies of the 26 seats leaving one to the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The constituencies won by PDP were: Ayedaade, Ifelodun, Ila, Ifedayo, Ifelodun/Orolu, Odo-otin, Olorunda, Osogbo, Atakunmosa East&West, Ife-central, Ife-east, Ife-north, Ife-south, Ilesa east, Ilesa west, Obokun, Oriade, Ayedire, Ede-north, Ede-south, Egbedore, Irewole/Isokan, Iwo, Olaoluwa, Ejigbo while Boripe/Boluwaduro was clinched by APC.
In a statement issued on Sunday, Governor Adeleke celebrated the chain of victories the PDP had secured in Osun state from July 16, 2022 to February 25th, 2022 and that of Saturday, March 18th, describing the outcomes of the elections as “complete embrace of PDP by Osun people for good governance and responsive leadership.
“My good people of Osun state, you have honored me and my party with another remarkable victory at the assembly elections. You have passed an excellent vote of confidence in my administration and my party by a series of electoral mandates in the last three elections. I went round the state with my scorecard under 100 days and you responded by endorsing my party’s candidates for legislative offices.
“You listened to my request for assembly members of my party who will work with me to deliver our five point agenda. Your trust in me to deliver on our election promises have been expanded and strengthened. Your verdict on my performance is loud and clear- you have approved of our people-focussed governance and our demonstrated will to resolve all outstanding challenges inherited from the previous administration.
“I have come to say a big thank you. We will not take your approval, endorsement and solid backing for granted. Myself and my team will rededicate ourselves to the urgent task of state building, of service delivery and of delivery of dividends of democracy.
The governor however, extended hands of fellowship and brotherhood to the opposition, saying “join me to build a new Osun state. I urge all lovers of democracy to enter the Imole train.
“Osun people need all, within and outside her political class, to unite for state development. You will find in me a listening and responsive State Chief Executive. Our administration will remain committed to an open, consultative, inclusive and transparent governance.
“We will govern with fear of God under rule of law for the collective interest of all Osun people irrespective of political or religious affiliations. Let all rest assured that there is no victor, no vanquished,” he stated.
Reacting to the election outcome and PDP’s celebration, the All Progressives Congress, APC noted that the assembly election in the state was characterised by violence, attacks, maiming, suppression, intimidation, bullying, browbeating, bullyragging and scaring of the voters of the APC extraction by PDP’s thugs.
The APC told the governor not to rejoice too much over the victory as it doesn’t change his status as a sacked Governor by virtue of the tribunal judgment delivered in January.
In a statement by the state Acting chairman of the APC, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal on Sunday, the party argued that the PDP fraudulently cleared many of the seats in the Assembly.
Lawal queried that in what capacity was the governor extending olive branch to the opposition.
He said, “It is too early for the obviously belligerent Governor Adeleke to rejoice over the blood-and-sweat victory of the candidates of his party in yesterday’s elections across the state as the metaphorical legs of their buried dead body which the unmerited victory earned the questionable candidates of his party, majority of whom are certified Yahoo Yahoo practitioners, have been exposed.
“My party will not relent its efforts in bailing out the innocent people of the state from the throats of political vampires, buzzards, cretins and sleazebags who have invaded and raided the political sphere of the state with their phoney populist ideology and electoral commodification.”
