The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as irresponsible, the claim by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that it has won the Osun State Governorship election, which result is still being collated.
Director General of the Campaign Council of Governor Gboyega Oyetola’s re-election, Senator Ajibola Basiru, made the assertion in a statement issued in Osogbo late Saturday.
In the statement sighted by metrowatchxtra, Senator Basiru noted that the claim by the PDP was capable of setting Osun on fire.
He, therefore, warned the PDP to “desist from making a frivolous and unsubstantiated claim about an election, which, as we speak, voting is still going on in some areas.”
Basiru equally called on the security agencies to “take appropriate action in dealing decisively with the peddlers of this false claim as they are setting the stage for violence and chaos.”
The statement partly reads, “It has come to our knowledge that the PDP in a statement is already claiming victory for an election whose result is yet to be declared. We are not surprised at their claim because we know their antics.
“Going by the result so far declared, there was no way PDP could lay claim to any victory. This is more so that in one of the Local Governments where the PDP candidate hails voting is still going on as we speak.
“Therefore, the PDP’s claim is tantamount to standing logic on its head. We appeal to our supporters and sympathisers in Osun and across the country to remain calm in the face of this obvious provocation.
“While we won’t do what the desperate people in the opposition PDP did by usurping the powers of INEC, we are however confident that with the positive results from the field at our disposal, the people’s support for Gov Oyetola will ultimately give him victory when the authority legally empowered to announce election results does so and he is declared Governor-elect,” Basiru added.
