A couple of minutes after the results of the Peoples Democratic Occasion governorship major election was concluded in Osogbo, capital of Osun State, on Tuesday, some officers of the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee and different perceived delegates have been attacked on the venue.
Occasion chieftain, Adebayo Olugbenga Adedamola had been introduced because the candidate of the PDP for the August 8 gubernatorial election by the electoral committee who left the venue instantly after the train was efficiently concluded, earlier than the Speaker of the Osun State Home of Meeting, Adewale Egbedun, led some lawmakers and their aides to the venue, apparently to disrupt the train.
The Speaker had been concerned in a critical altercation some INEC officers who have been on the venue to observe the train, earlier than the electoral officers have been crushed by a number of the aides of the lawmakers.
A video obtained by THE POINT confirmed some aides of the Meeting members assaulting INEC officers and different members of the occasion.
Egbedun arrived on the venue, Adolak Occasion Centre alongside along with his deputy, Akinyode Oyewusi and different lawmakers with their aides after the winner of the first had been declared to kick in opposition to the train.
Within the video, Egbedun was seen pointing on the Public Relations Officer of Osun INEC, Musa Olurode who wore a blue native costume. After the Speaker’s gesture, the legislators’ aides.began beating Olurode.
Nevertheless, Oyewusi, apparently heard Olurode screaming that he was an INEC employees, ordered that the aides to stop the assault.
The video revealed the Speaker leaving the spot and coming into into the corridor the place he angrily shouted in opposition to these on the venue that they lacked the best to carry a celebration major in Osun State.
Talking with newsmen on the venue of the PDP major, Egbedun warned Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde in opposition to utilizing Osun State as a ladder for his presidential ambition.
Claiming that the first election delegates are PDP members from Oyo State, Egbedun stated, “I’m the Speaker of Osun, I’m a pacesetter in my state and within the PDP. We have been on the ground of the home, after we obtained calls that some folks have been right here (Adolak) all the best way from Oyo State to come back, simply to have a vote that we name a drama.
“I’m a pacesetter of PDP and a bona fide member of the Occasion, I used the PDP ticket to win my election in 2023. So it’s very unusual to see movies of individuals calling themselves PDP members. I may keep in mind that there was a message that there was going to be a Congress. We have been ready for them and we obtained one other message that the Congress has been postponed.”
He warned that “This can be a message to Governor Seyi Makinde, if he’s determined to develop into President come 2027, he ought to use one other state as a software not Osun State. We’re bona fide PDP members, now we have 25 Home of Meeting members, 5 Rep members, and senators.
“For a governor from one other state to come back to our state to dictate to us, we gained’t take that. This can be a message to everyone that we gained’t take this anymore. They got here right here to do what I can name a drama and this would be the finish of it.”
He reiterated that “We should not have any notifications by any means from any workplace, I’m the Speaker, and a governor from one other state will come to dictate to us, we gained’t take that. We may have a gathering and determine on what to do.”
In one other assault, a group of males who recognized themselves as officers of Oyo Park Administration, have been confronted by the lawmakers’ entourage, assaulted and bundled again into an 18-seater-bus and brought to a Police Publish inside the premises of the Osun State Home of Meeting Advanced.
On the police publish, the “arrested males” numbering about 14, denied taking part within the major election train, saying they’d visited Adolak bar to wine earlier than “some boys” surrounded them and began beating them.
Our correspondent witnessed a light drama on the police publish as a number of the aides of the lawmakers have been forcing some occasion accredited tags on the necks of the Oyo males amid rejections by the transport officers.
Regardless of bringing out their identification playing cards which revealed they have been Park Administration officers from Oyo State and claiming that they have been in Osogbo for a Zonal assembly of Transport Union, aides of the legislators insisted that they have been recruited from Oyo to impersonate Osun PDP members on the major.