Osun rerun election: Why result cannot stand – Ex-APC spokesperson, Frank

Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives
Congress. APC, Comrade Timi Frank, has said that the declaration of
the APC candidate, Oyetola Gboyega, as the winner of the Osun State
Governorship election cannot stand.

Frank in a statement he personally signed and forwarded to DAILY POST
in Abuja stated that the results from the "false rerun election"
stands rejected, while calling on the people of the state to rise up
and reclaim their mandate.

He called on the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and all
national commissioners of the electoral body, to immediately resign
their appointment as "Nigerians and the international community have
lost confidence in their ability and willingness to conduct free, fair
and credible elections in 2019."

Frank's statement said, "I don't think Nigerians need a soothsayer to
realize that the country is now under full-blown dictatorship and
totalitarian system of government under the APC and President
Muhammadu Buhari.

"We saw it in Ekiti State. We have seen it in Osun State. Democracy in
Nigeria has been hijacked by demagogues. The open electoral robbery in
Osun is a clarion call to all Nigerians to rise up and defend
democracy in the country beginning with the demand for the urgent
restoration of the mandate of the Osun people freely given to the PDP
on September 22.

"We must rise up to ensure that the ebbing embers of democratic
governance in Nigeria, occasioned by APC's continuous electoral
banditry is not completely snuffed out," he declared.

"It remains to be seen if the great people of Osun will sit by and
watch as the governorship mandate they freely gave to Ademola Adeleke
of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on September 22 is stolen and
allowed to go for good!

"This is the time for Osun people to rise up and demand for their
right. This is the time for the great descendants of Oduduwa to rise
up and demand for the restoration of their mandate.

"This is the time for all PDP Governors and national leaders to band
together and fight for the sustenance of democracy in the country.

"Let them realize that the Osun APC's banditry is a foretaste of the
indecent and criminal path the ruling party is prepared to toe to hang
onto power in 2019.

"This is the time for all Nigerians to rise up to stop the APC from
taking the country back into the dungeon of tyranny and dictatorship
where the freedom and will of the people will no more count," he said.