AREGBESOLA APC PLANNING TO USE OYES CADETS AS FAKE POLLING OFFICERS

Information reaching us from the grapevine is that in its desperate bid to rig the September 22 governorship election, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has concluded plans to use the newly recruited cadets of Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme (OYES) as Polling Officers (POs) across all local governments in Osun state.

Since it is obvious that the APC has lost touch with the people of Osun state through its unpopular policies in the last eight years, coupled with the aftermath of its recent implosion, the Party is bending over backwards to manipulate the electoral process in its favour, at all costs.

As a result, through the back door, the party, using the instrument of the state, is alleged to have cloned National Youth Service Corps identity cards and uniforms to the new OYES cadets for the purpose of serving as POs on Election Day.

It is imperative of us, as the leading political platform in Osun state today, to sound a note of warning that Social Democratic Party (SDP) will resist any attempt by the ruling party to use fake NYSC members in the September poll.

The SDP polling agents across the state shall be instructed to scrutinise the identity of all the Polling Officers with a view to properly verifying genuine Youth Corps members.

SDP and its teeming members and supporters shall not fail, at any point in time, to ensure a free, fair and credible polls on September 22. We shall also not keep quiet on issues, actions and attempts from any quarters that is capable of truncating the electoral process with fraud or violence.

The unsuspecting public of Osun state whose confidence in the SDP candidate, Sen. Dr. Iyiola Omisore is not in doubt, is hereby implored to be alert on the Election Day. It is our collective responsibility to ensure that our votes count, and that all fraudulent tendencies of the ruling APC must be totally rejected.

Signed :

Dr. Bayo Faforiji,

SDP Chairman,

Osun state.