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Osun Gov Rerun Election — Osun APC Attacks NOA Boss.

By Richard Akintade, Osogbo

The Osun All Progressive Congress, APC, has reacted to the reported statement of the National Orientation Agency, NOA boss, Dr. Garba Abari, that the rerun election victory of the party in the last governorship election in the state was ‘clearly’ decided by money.

Dr. Abari was alleged saying in Abuja at the weekend that he had ‘monitored and seen the role of money in the Ondo, Anambra, Ekiti and of course, the most dramatic is the Osun rerun election where clearly it was money that decided the winner”.

But the APC in the state, disagreed and described the statement as ‘unfortunate and factually inaccurate’.

‘We don’t know what Dr. Abari knows about Ekiti and Ondo states’ elections and how they were influenced by money. But we hold that he lacks factual knowledge of what happened in our state’, the party asserted.

The APC Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, Barr. Kunle Oyatomi, in a statement released in Osogbo on Sunday said, ‘if Dr. Abari actually monitored the Osun election he would have seen how the Adeleke family made use of money so brazenly that the PDP candidate almost stole victory, but for the fortuitous re-run.

‘Our candidate eventually won the election because of the hightened security mounted in and around the polling stations to prevent fraud and stop PDP mercenaries that were mobilised and monitored to steal victory.

The PDP lost. Now Dr. Abari is trying to create the impression that the APC won the rerun by buying the votes. That is an alternative fact, which is pure and simple, fake news’, the party said.

According to APC, ‘if anybody or party used money to influence the last Osun governorship election, it was the PDP candidate and the Adeleke family.

‘The NOA boss may have been misinformed, otherwise, he was biased against the APC. We cannot find any other explanation for such unverifiable statement from Abari on the rerun election, the APC spokesman concluded.

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