APC Replies Davido’s Father Deji Adeleke’s Claim Of Osun Election Being Rigged

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun State has replied
Davido’s father, Dr Deji Adeleke, over claims that his brother,
Ademola Adeleke was deprived of his victory in the 2018 Osun State
election.

Adeleke had said that the ”day light robbery” that deprived his
brother of the mandate freely given by the good people of Osun
State, had brought shame and disgrace to Nigeria as a country.

However reacting to the claim, the APC in a statement signed by
its Media Director, Barr Kunle Oyatomi, said that Senator Ademola
Adeleke is not a governor today because he lost the Osun
Governorship election.

It reads in full;

“The statement of Dr Deji Adeleke that his brother, the PDP
candidate won the election has no basis in law and in facts and
should be disregarded by all well-meaning people who believe in the
rule of law and the democratic process.

“That Deji Adeleke and some other people desperately wished for
his brother to win could not make him victorious. More importantly,
however, is the fact that at no time during the election process
did INEC declare Senator Ademola Adeleke winner.

“Initially, the election was stalemated because no clear winner
emerged due to serious irregularities and violence in Orolu, Osogbo
and Ife Federal constituencies, which rendered the votes at seven
polling units invalid.

“In law, when there is such a stalemate, INEC makes the
determination for a re-run election at those polling units;
especially so if the total votes in the affected units are more
than enough to upturn any advantage of either of the two leading
contestants.

“The PDP candidate lost the re-run election and therefore could
not become governor. At that point the case went to the Tribunal
for legal determination.

“Although the Election Tribunal in its judgment gave the
election to the PDP, the Superior Court of Appeals and the Supreme
Court of the country made clear in their determination of the
position of the law that;

“Not only was INEC right to declare the first election
stalemated, the final outcome of the process produced a clear
winner, who is Governor Gboyega Oyetola, the APC candidate.

“So, legally and factually, the winner was the APC candidate
albeit by a narrow margin. Such a re-run election was not peculiar
to the state of Osun. Similar situations had occurred in some other
states before and after that of the state of Osun.

“Such situations occurred in Imo (2011 and 2015), Anambra
(2013), Taraba (2015), Abia (2015), Kogi (2015), and Bayelsa
(2015). After Osun in 2018, INEC, empowered by Electoral Law in Sec
53 (3), also in March 2019, declared inconclusive, guber elections
in Bauchi, Benue, Kano, Plateau and Sokoto.

“Winners and losers had emerged after the re-run and the Supreme
Court did uphold the outcome. The case of Osun, therefore, is not
strange.

“For Dr Deji Adeleke to still be dreaming that his brother won
the election, simply shows that he has scant regard for the rule of
law and belief in the democratic process.”

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