The Action Congress of Nigeria and Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State, on Sunday traded words on the outcome of Saturday’s presidential election in the state, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
The ACN scored 299,791 votes in the state to beat the PDP which recorded 188,409 in the election as announced by Independent National Electoral Commission on Sunday.
A statement by Director, Bureau of Strategy and Communications in the Office of the Osun State Governor, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, described the result as satisfactory.
The Chairman of the ACN in the state, Mr. Adelowo Adebiyi, in a statement, attributed the party’s victory to the acceptance of Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s administration by the people.
Although, both parties agreed that the election was free and fair, the PDP alleged that its members were scared to vote in some parts of Ijesaland.
The PDP’s Director of Publicity, Mr. Deolu Adeyemo, told NAN in an interview that some PDP supporters were brutalised in the area by suspected ACN thugs.
Adeyemo lamented that the voters were beaten with horse whips and chased away from voting centres.
However, Adebiyi said that the election result only showed the people’s love for Aregbesola for his able leadership.
Meanwhile, a PDP chieftain in the state, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, has bemoaned the party’s loss in Saturday’s presidential election to the ACN in the state.
Babatope told the NAN by telephone in Osogbo on Monday that it was regrettable that Osun was the only state that did not vote for the PDP in the South-West geo-political zone.
He, however, thanked the people for giving an appreciable level of support to Jonathan in the election.
He urged the people to always look beyond “local politics” with a view to deriving maximum benefits from the Federal Government.
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PDP, ACN trade words on election results in Osun