Osun Decides: Your decision disservice to our democracy, unacceptable – Seyi Makinde fires INEC

A gubernatorial aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Oyo State, Engineer Seyi Makinde, has described the excuse given by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), where it declared the election in Osun State as inconclusive as not tenable and “unacceptable”.

DAILY POST learnt that INEC had declared the election as inconclusive and ordered for a rerun in some wards.

But, Makinde, while reacting, declared that the PDP candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke ought to have been declared as the winner of the election because he has the highest number of votes and scored twenty five per cent in more than twenty local government areas out of the thirty local government areas in the state.

Makinde in a statement made available to DAILY POST on Sunday said it was “unacceptable, the reason given by INEC for declaring the gubernatorial election in Osun state inconclusive”.

He, therefore, described the INEC’s decision on the election as disservice to Nigeria’s democracy and cannot stand the test of time.

Makinde said, “PDP candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke, who won the highest number of votes and scored 25 percent in more than two thirds of the 30 local government areas in the state ought to have been declared the winner of the election.

“Senator Adeleke won the election fair and square”.

He maintained that “INEC must have buckled under pressure from desperate politicians whose cupboards are filled with filth.

“The decision by the electoral body is a disservice to democracy and will not stand the test of time”.

Makinde, while speaking further, however, warned that such miscarriage of justice would be resisted by the people of the state.

He said, “Such miscarriage of justice no matter how short will not be allowed to happen in Oyo State”.

Makinde, on behalf of PDP members in the state further applauded the good people of Osun State for the role they played against what he called “anti-democratic forces who did everything humanly possible to reverse the wheel of progress”.

He concluded by saying that, “It is disheartening to note that since the advent of APC at the federal level, all elections conducted by INEC have been riddled with controversies and failed to meet basic international standard”.

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