Don't Rejoice yet, Osun PDP Guber Aspirant warns Adeleke, Alleged Rigging

The frontier governorship aspirant under the banner of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State, Dr. Akin Ogunbiyi has rejected the results of the primary election of the party and vowed to use internal mechanism of the party to seek for immediate redress.

Stating his position on the outcome of the governorship primary election of the PDP, Ogunbiyi insisted that the votes attributed to him at the poll were much lower than the votes he actually garnered. He stated this today, at his residence in Ile-Ogbo in Ayedire local government area of the state, stressing that the PDP has no governorship candidate yet.

The presiding officer of the election, governor Dickson Seriake of Bayelsa state at the said poll declared that Ogunbiyi polled 1, 562 votes and lost to Senator Ademola Adeleke who repeatedly polled 1,569 votes.

But, Ogunbiyi rejected the verdict, stating that, “the outcome of the primary election has been a subject of concern to a great majority of our party members who have been disappointed, disillusioned and confused by the conduct of the exercise and the results as declared by the Panel led by His Excellency, Governor Seriake Dickson.”

He added, “some of the major issues which compromised the integrity of the exercise and made the results clearly unacceptable include the non-adherence to the clear provisions of the Electoral Guidelines and unfortunate manipulation of the accreditation, voting, sorting and counting of the votes cast by delegates at the primaries.”