
One of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirants in Osun State, Akin Ogunbiyi, has rejected the result of the party’s primaries conducted on Saturday.
Ogunbiyi, speaking with journalists on Sunday in Osogbo, claimed that
the votes attributed to him at the poll were much lower than the votes
he actually garnered.
He vowed to seek immediate redress
The presiding officer of the election, Governor Dickson Seriake of
Bayelsa State, while announcing the results, declared that Ogunbiyi
polled 1,562 votes and lost to Senator Ademola Adeleke, who polled 1,569
votes.
“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.
“Consequent upon these infractions, therefore, the votes attributed
to me at the end of the voting exercise were much lower than what I
actually scored as valid votes. I have therefore resolved to use the
internal mechanism of the party to seek an immediate redress of this
clear case of injustice which is contrary to the spirit of transparency
and justice being propagated by the new leadership of our party led by
the National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus,” Ogunbiyi said.
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