Attempts by PDP’s surrogates to stop monthly allocation to LGs in Osun “ll fail ―APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC), in Osun on Sunday declared that attempts being made by surrogates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stop monthly allocations to local governments in the state, via a court process would fail.

Beside, the party also assured its members and generality of the people in Osun that the proposed local,government poll to be conducted by the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC), come January 27, 2018 would still hold despite alleged moves by the opposition to scuttle the exercise.

In a statement issued by the Osun APC director of publicity, research and strategy, Barrister Kunle Oyatomi, the party maintained that “PDP will fail in Osun as PDP and former President Olusegun Obasanjo failed in Lagos, while the local governemnt reforms in the state will move on”.

The statement reads “Osun has alerted its members and supporters to be prepared to stand up to political losers within and outside the party, who are in a frenzy to stop the unstoppable, especially as countdown to the local government poll accelerates.

“The party was reacting to a rash of development that has seen attempts by the PDP to stop the council election  scheduled for January 27, next year. The APC gave assurances that the party remains ‘firmly in control of the situation and that nothing will derail the calculated and irrevocable drive towards conducting a successful local government poll, and also winning the governorship election scheduled for September 2018′.

“In addition, we encourage members and supporters that nobody should feel any sense of loss over defectors  from the party’. We describe them as ‘losers with sore grapes’ mentality’.

‘The idea of the PDP that council election will not be held is vain, and the attempt to legally stop the disbursement of local government money by the Federal
Government is a pathetic exercise in futility’. The party further argued that ‘it is a constitutional issue that is least likely to succeed’.

“The APC further stressed that ‘the Nigerian judiciary is solid and remains the people’s hope for justice, so the days of ‘jankara’ injunctions to sidestep the law  have gone. Due process has been established in our country’s judicial system and that’s the course the state’s Attorney General, Dr. Ajibola Bashiru has taken.

‘Osun should rest assured that the only reason the PDP is in court,  albeit through surrogates,  is because it knows that it will be beaten silly in the next local
government election.

‘If it had the slightest chance in the world that it could win’, the APC said, ‘the PDP will not be wasting its time and resources in the court. It would rather be strong on the campaign trail’, the APC concluded.