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PDP Stalwarts Protests At INEC Headquarters Over Osun State Governorship Result As Police Teargas Saraki, Others

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October 5, 2018

Fumes of teargas dispensed by Police at protesting leaders of PDP

Stalwarts and top echelons of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have stormed the premises of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headquarters office, Abuja, to protest against what they called manipulation of the just concluded Osun state governorship election.

The leaders of the party who were in the protest include Senate President, Bukola Saraki; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose and the national chairman of the party, Uche Secondus, among others who led the protesters to the Commission.

Apart from demanding the resignation of the INEC Chairman, they demanded the declaration of
Adesina Adeleke who contested for the Osun state governorship under the platform of the PDP, as The winner.

They alleged that the police and INEC are appendages of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Also among the protesters are Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State; presidential aspirant, Sule Lamido; presidential aspirant Rabiu Kwankwaso; Senator Dino Melaye, Senator Ben Muray-Bruce, among others.

The protesters wore T-shirts with the inscription “ the Nigeria Police and INEC are arms of the All Progressives Congress.”

The Nigerian Police teargassed the Senate President Senator Bukola Saraki and other Peoples Democratic Party Presidential aspirants during the protest for a free and fear election at the INEC office and on the Street of Abuja.

Meanwhile, the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and some other leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party were at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission Abuja, to demand that INEC declare Ademola Adeleke as the winner of the governorship election in Osun state.

The protesters, who arrived in a vehicle, marked ‘justice’, included the party chairman, Uche Secondus, speaker of the house Yakubu Dogara, governor of Sokoto, Aminu Tambuwal and former governor of Jigawa, Sule Lamido.

The protest coincided with the formal presentation by Governor Rauf Aregbesola of the winner, Gboyega Oyetola to President Muhammadu Buhari.

Oyetola, a member of the All Progressives Congress was able to wipe out the 353 vote lead by Adeleke, in the first election on 22 September, by the crutches offered by Senator iyiola Omisore of the SDP.

Oyetola was given the certificate of election by INEC on Thursday, with the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Agbaje, vowing to resign if the Supreme Court eventually upturned Oyetola’s victory.