The Conference of Nigerian Political
Parties in Osun State has endorsed the younger brother of late Isiaka
Adeleke, Ademola, a candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, for the July 8
Osun West Senatorial bye-election.
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The parties, including the All
Progressive Grand Alliance, (APGA) Action Alliance (AA), Social Democratic
Party (SDP), Green Party of Nigeria (GPN), Alliance for Democracy (AD),
Democratic People's Party (DPP), Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), People's Party
of Nigeria (PPN), People's Democratic Movement (PDM) among others, at a
press conference in Ede, also cautioned the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) against postponing the election.
The CNPP Secretary, Gbade Adelakun, speaking
on behalf of the conference unanimously endorsed the Ademola Adeleke as their
candidate for the bye-election.
According to him, members of the
political parties comprising the CNPP should come out en masses and cast their
votes for Adeleke come July 8.
He warned the INEC against
postponing the already scheduled bye-election, saying, "the Conference of
Nigeria Political Parties CNPP in Osun State oppose vehemently the
planned supposedly postponement of the bye-election of Osun West Senatorial
District slated for 8th, July 2017.
"Such postponement will amount
to unnecessary tension among the political parties. Adding that "Moral
burden is on the INEC not to shift the date of election."
He accused the APC and Governor Rauf
Aregbesola of conniving with the INEC officials to subvert the process of
the election.
Adelekun said: "We have it on
good authority that primary and secondary school students are being used for
data capturing and thumb printing, what for and why?"
He also alleged that the APC and
Aregbesola had concluded plan to rig the election in rural areas of the state
with the connivance of the "State Boys."
In attendance at the briefing were
some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress, including former Secretary of
Ede South Local Government, Alhaji Lukman Afolabi, and former APC leader,
Ede South Local government area, Hon. Ademola Oyebode.
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