The APC Campaign Council for the
Osun Governorship Election has told the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to
boycott the rerun of the governorship election if it was not comfortable with
the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
The Council said this while
advising its members in the areas where the state’s election rerun will be held
on Thursday to ignore the rantings of the opposition and turn out en masse to
vote for the ruling party.
Reacting to the threat by the PDP
to drag INEC to court, APC said the opposition party, after failing to win
Saturday’s election at all cost, was shopping for an illegal shortcut to
victory by threatening a court action over an issue that has been settled by
the Supreme Court.
In a statement in Abuja by the
Chairman of the Council’s Media Committee, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Council
said the threat by the PDP to challenge, in court, INEC’s declaration of last
Saturday’s election as inconclusive was nothing but sheer bravado, especially
as the opposition party is afraid of losing the rerun.
”The PDP knows that the so-called
court challenge which it has threatened to mount will not fly, especially
because the highest court in the land has already pronounced on the issue of
whether or not INEC has the powers to declare an election inconclusive,” the
statement continued.
”The PDP is not unaware of the
pronouncement of the Supreme Court in the case of James Abiodun Faleke Vs INEC
and others, that INEC has the duty of conducting elections and that, besides
the constitutional provisions, it is guided by the Electoral Act 2010 (as
amended) and
the Election Guidelines and
Manual issued for its officials in accordance with the Act,” the Council said.
The APC Council said that since
the PDP had boasted that its candidate will win if the Osun Governorship
Election is conducted over and over again, the party should stop being jittery
and put its money where its mouth is by willingly participating in the rerun.
It said, however, that if the PDP
chooses to boycott Thursday’s rerun out of fear, the party’s right to do so
will be respected.
”The PDP, after its failed
mission to win Saturday’s election at all cost, is shopping for an illegal
shortcut to victory by threatening a court action over an issue that has been
settled. It’s a sheer waste of time. Let the PDP drop its pretension and get
ready to be defeated in Thursday’s rerun. Alternatively, it can withdraw to
save face.”
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