Osun APC, PDP trade claims before the cou
The PDP was allegedly intending to attack its witnesses and drive them from the tribunal hearing Governor Adegboyega Oyetola’s case challenging Senator Ademola Adeleke’s victory in the July governorship election, according to a statement from the APC signed by its chairman, ‘Gboyega Famoodun.
The PDP was charged with planning mayhem regardless of the tribunal’s decision to give the impression that Oyetola’s administration was unpopular in the state, according to the APC.
It claimed that some members of the opposition party in the state wanted to destabilize the state using internal disputes within the party.
In the interest of the people’s security, we are firmly alerting the astute members of the public and requesting the legal instrument of statutory security apparatus by which the state PDP’s scheme to destabilize our state can be stopped in its tracks,” the APC said in its conclusion.
Akindele Adekunle, the caretaker chairman of the PDP in Osun State, responded to the accusations by claiming that the APC had planned a precise attack on the IEC’s Osogbo State Office, specifically the strong room housing the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machines used for the most recent governorship election.
The APC, according to the PDP, was frightened of the expected ease of verification and the subsequent invalidation of its claim of over-voting, if the Tribunal sittings continued in Osogbo, and was thus raising the alarm of insecurity to force a change of venue of the Tribunal sitting to Abuja.
The party further asserted that, should the panel meeting be moved, the APC had made plans to stop additional tribunal sessions while it devised a scheme to subject the BVAS machines to manipulation.
The PDP Chairman said that the ruling party was already looking for evidence to persuade the Court of Appeal to allow the relocation while reiterating his party’s opposition to moving the Tribunal to Abuja.
Osun State has complete security. The Tribunal hearing is still going on without any problems. We maintain that there is no rationale for the push for relocation other than the dread of the failure of the APC’s flawed petition, despite the shamelessness of a state administration indicting itself with bogus concern, the PDP said in its conclusion.
