A human rights activist, Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman, has sent a message to the immediate past Governor of Osun State, Alhaji Isiaka Gboyega Oyetola, and his teeming supporters, led by the Speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly, Timothy Owoeye, by stopping their dreams of thinking that Oyetola would come back to govern the State in the next four years between November 2022 and November 2026.
The rights activist was reacting to recent insinuations by Oyetola and Owoeye on staging come back to power.
Oyetola lost the July 16, 2022 governorship election to Governor Nurudeen Ademola Adeleke.
In a signed statement by Comrade Sulaiman, made available to newsmen on Tuesday, he told both leaders of the All Progressives Congress in the State to stop their evil dream of coming back to governance of the State for this electioneering and governing period of the Ademola Adeleke administration.
Sulaiman, who is the Executive Chairman, Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice, urged them to accept their loss in the July 16, 2022governorship election in good faith and prepare for the 2026 governorship election.
He said in the statement: “Thinking of manipulating the electoral and judicial process if the Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu won the Presidential election to stage come back to power through the back door can not be fruitful for Gboyega Oyetola because the law in respect of Electoral Act 2022 has settled everything and no President can manipulate such electoral process again.
“Nigeria is not a banana republic where law would be made to satisfy the whims and caprices of Gboyega Oyetola and Bola Tinubu. For instance, all the opposition Governors the Courts ruled in their favour that lead to the conduct of staggering Governorship elections in the country today, were during the period of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidency and heaven did not fall.”
Sulaiman emphatically stated that the good people of Osun State had given four years mandate to govern the State to Adeleke on July 16, 2022 and God had stamped the mandate on November 27, 2022, stating that no living mortar could change it because voice of the people is the voice of God.
Speaking on the ongoing Osun State Election Petition Tribunal, the pro-democracy activist noted that the Election Tribunal was not set up to favour any party but to deal with post election issues, adding that the issues before it in respect of July 16, 2022 governorship election in Osun State were very cleared and the error of over voting in alleged six Polling Units would affect all the political parties that participated in the poll.
Speaking further, Sulaiman declared that Governor Adeleke had started the governance of the State on a good direction to uncover all the evil deeds of Oyetola’s administration that might retard the progress of our dear State, saying that they should instead be applauding Governor Adeleke for humble beginning of the good governance in the State, not about their wishful thinking of coming to power through the backdoor to continue their evil actions.
He therefore urged Oyetola and his co-travelers to learn how to imbibe the spirit of sportsmanship in a race of electoral process by always accepting the election outcome in good faith.
He said the former governor should learn the spirit of sportsmanship posture from Adeleke during the “manipulated” 2018 governorship election in favour of Oyetola.
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