If PDP Were In Power, Osun Election Would’ve Been Hijacked – Lai Mohammed

Minister of information, Lai Mohammed, has said if the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was in power, the Osun State elections would have been hijacked.

The minister, in a statement, added that the party would have ensured that a rerun in the state would not hold.

Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Osun governorship poll inconclusive and scheduled a rerun for Thursday.

In a statement on Monday, Mohammed said, “In its time, there would have been no room for a supplementary election in Osun because the PDP would have used state institutions to hijack the election proper, as it did in Ekiti in 2014.

“But in its deafening hysteria, the PDP pretends not to understand the real meaning of the outcome of the Osun election – that the ruling APC did nothing to prevent the state institutions that organised the election from carrying out their duties, in the spirit of true democracy.

“Local and foreign observers have hailed INEC and the security agencies for a well-organised election. We join them in this commendation.

“Our confidence in the ability of the relevant state institutions involved in the Osun election remains unshaken. So also is our belief that every disagreement resulting from the election must be resolved through the democratic process, rather than a resort to threats of fire and brimstone.

“Rather than resort to threats, like the PDP is doing now, the APC simply submitted to the democratic process and the supplementary election was peacefully conducted in 91 polling units across 18 of the 21 local governments in the state. Where were these emergency, ready-for-hire analysts then?”