Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has verbalized that he is yare to face Peoples Democratic Party forces in the August 9 governorship election, insisting that he will win the election by popular votes.
Aregbesola, who verbalized in Osogbo, on Saturday, admonished the PDP against rigging the governorship election. According to him, the PDP does not have the fortification of the masses like him.
When asked how his party would react if there was an endeavor by security forces to restrict its bellwethers and members, Aregbesola verbalized nobody could stop the people of Osun from exercising their civic right.
He verbally expressed, “I’m a product of the popular forces, by popular forces, I mean the people, I emanated from them, I’m a product of their struggle. I’ve interacted on a circadian substratum with the people from the outset of my administration. They ken me and I ken them. I have affected their lives through populist programmes.
“I’m from the street and it is facile for me to go back to the street because that’s where my people are. Can they (PDP) go to the street?
“They don’t ken who they are facing; my authentic home is the street. Look at me, do I look akin to a governor? That’s why I call my administration regime unorthodox because we require to bring ardency and vision into governance and break away from stagnating ways of doing things.
“Let’s meet on the street. My administration has the full support of the masses.”
But the Minister of State for Defence, Mr. Musiliu Obanikoro, verbally expressed the PDP would stop the APC from rigging the election.
Obanikoro, who verbalized with our correspondent in Osogbo, on Saturday, incriminated the APC of orchestrating to rig the election, stressing that the PDP would resist the alleged endeavor.
On the allegation that the PDP is orchestrating to militarise Osun governorship election, Obanikoro explicated that there was the desideratum to provide the electorate with a caliber playing field devoid of harassment and dismay.
He verbalized, “We are not here to capture Osun. We want people to emerge without any trepidation or dismay and cast their votes. The noise, the hullabaloo that you are aurally perceiving is because they optate to rig. We ken them too well with their capacity to rig election. They are not for one man, one vote. They have been importing people into the state.”