I’ll Challenge Results in Court, Says Olusola

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Prof. Kolapo Olusola, has rejected the results. He said he won the election overwhelmingly, claiming that he received more than 70 per cent of lawful votes in almost all the 16 local government areas of the state.

He vowed to challenge the results in court in order to reclaim his mandate. Olusola alleged that security agencies aided and abetted the APC to intimidate, oppress and induce voters in order to manipulate the poll for Fayemi.

He said, “You are all aware of the unfortunate and dangerous events of the past 24 hours, in which our governorship election was hijacked by political desperadoes leveraging on ‘federal might’ to pervert the electoral process, subvert the will of Ekiti people, and viciously steal the mandate willingly and freely given to me on a massive scale by our people.

“I therefore reject the falsified results being bandied by the INEC, which purportedly gave the election to the APC and its candidate (Fayemi).

“This is the most audacious electoral robbery of our recent history. It shall not stand. By the grace of Almighty God and your support, I will pursue and regain my mandate.

“To rig this election, the APC leveraged on its well-advertised but patently obnoxious and anti-democratic ‘federal might’ to intimidate, harass, victimise, oppress, and brutalise PDP leaders, members, and the voting public all over Ekiti. This brutal and barbaric process, which started well before the election, did not spare Governor Ayodele Fayose and me; as the whole world had seen and had condemned it. It is quite unfortunate that the harassment has continued even after the election.”

He accused security agencies of not only supporting but also supervising the indiscriminate arrest of PDP leaders and agents while also harassing voters on a massive scale, especially in Ado Ekiti, Ikere and in the suburbs.

He also accused them of giving cover to the APC agents as they bought votes at polling stations and drove away PDP polling agents from collation centres among others.

“INEC on its own part reneged on its promise to have results counted, declared, and pasted on the wall of each polling station. There was nowhere INEC transmitted results from the polling centres as earlier promised. Ballot boxes were illegally moved to INEC offices while our agents were disallowed from following the process,” he said.