Osun Local government Poll: Be Prepared – APC Tells Members
The All Progressives Congress in the Osun State has urged its members and supporters to shun detractors and be fully prepared for the forthcoming local governments election in the state.
A statement signed and made available to newsmen in Osogbo by the party’s Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, Kunle Oyatomi, gave assurances that the party remains ‘firmly in control of the situation adding that nothing will derail the calculated and irrevocable drive towards conducting a successful local government poll in the state.’
The APC in addition encouraged its members and supporters that nobody should feel any sense of loss over defectors from the party’, describing them as ‘losers with ‘sore grapes’ mentality’.
Addressing the issue of the court case which attempts to derail the local government engineering in the state and stopping its funding, the APC said the PDP will fail in Osun as PDP and former President Olusegun Obasanjo failed in Lagos, while the LG reform in the state will move on.
‘The idea of the PDP that council election will not be held is vain, and the attempt to legally stop the disbursement of local government money by the Federal Government is a pathetic exercise in futility’, the APC said.
The party further argued that ‘it is a constitutional issue that is least likely to succeed’.
The APC further stressed that ‘the Nigerian judiciary is solid and remains the people’s hope for justice, so the days of ‘jankara’ injunctions to sidestep the law have gone. Due process has been established in our country’s judicial system and that’s the course the state’s Attorney General, Dr. Ajibola Bashiru has taken.
‘Osun should rest assured that the only reason the PDP is in court, albeit through surrogates, is because it knows that it will be beaten silly in the next local government election.
‘If it had the slightest chance in the world that it could win’, the APC said, ‘the PDP will not be wasting its time and resources in the court. It would rather be strong on the campaign trail’, the APC concluded.
