The APC said it was aware that the Ondo State by-election incident was a test-run of what Obanikoro and his counterparts plan to do in Osun.
However, as the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Ondo said of that event, those who tried to influence and corrupt the electoral process including the Minister ‘soiled their hands’. In Osun though, ‘they will burn their fingers’, the APC said.
The APC, in a statement by the Party’s spokesman, Barr. Kunle Oyatomi, drew the attention of public and security agencies to the confusion and destabilization, any attempt to use military men, police or armed youths to corrupt the electoral process will result in. The party therefore, urged the Federal Government to reign in individuals who are bent on breaking the law by unlawfully using federal institutions for criminal purposes. The party recalled, that the action of the Minister of State for defence in Ondo State is already reported to be causing unease within top military circles, and if nothing drastic is done to prevent a repetition of that incident, as the PDP plans to do in Osun, ‘peace will be seriously threatened and democracy will be at risk’, the APC said.
The Party therefore call on the people of Osun to stand firm and be prepared with their votes to elect their choice of leaders ‘regardless of blackmail and intimidation by those who want to by-pass the democratic process to unlawfully and violently ‘capture power’, the APC said.
Barr. Kunle Oyatomi,
Director of Publicity,
Research and Strategy,
APC, State of Osun.
Director of Publicity,
Research and Strategy,
APC, State of Osun.
