Osun poll: APC circulating fake results – Omisore

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Osun State governorship election, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has accused the All Progressives Congress of circulating fake results of the poll.
Omisore, in a statement by the Director of Media and Publicity of his campaign organisation, Diran Odeyemi, said the results were being circulated to create the impression that the candidate of the APC and incumbent Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, was in the lead.
The statement, however, said the opposite was the case.
It accused the APC of commencing the announcement of results even before collation began.
It said the APC had so perfected the strategy that even in areas where the party lost, its supporters were still jubilating as if it won.
Odeyemi said in the statement: “We noticed with dismay the desperate bid of the All Progressives Congress to discredit the final results of the governorship election in Osun State through publication of fake election results and celebration of false electoral victory. In the last four hours, the APC has been publishing several concocted results which are clearly against the reality of certified results been collated by the electoral commission.
“The party had brazenly assigned itself the task of collating and announcing results which are doctored and designed to undermine the credibility of the official results when finally announced. By circulating fake results, the APC intends to prove to the world that the election was rigged even when in reality the collation process was yet to start before its illegal action. The party has also proceeded to direct its supporters to commence celebration in towns and villages. Even in wards where the APC lost, the supporters followed the script by rolling out drums in celebration of a non existing victory. This is also part of a ploy to declare the final official results as manipulated in preparation for their usual tribunal battle. It is an elaborate plot to steal the Peoples mandate through the backdoor as the outgoing governor did after 2007 election.
“We therefore urge our teeming supporters to ignore the fabrications of the APC. We inform Nigerians and the good people of Osun State that the PDP is leading based on results collated so far and any concerted results has no basis in facts and legality. We await the official results from the electoral commission and we are convinced that the final results will confirm the electoral victory of Senator Iyiola Omisore.”