Osun Rerun: Atiku Urges Omisore To Support Adeleke

 

 

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has called on Iyiola Omisore, candidate of Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the Osun governorship poll, to work with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the rerun election.

 

Ademola Adeleke, candidate of the PDP, had polled 254,699 ahead of Isiaka Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who had 254,345 votes.

 

Omisore polled 128,049 to come third. However, INEC declared the poll inconclusive because the number of cancelled votes, 3,498, exceeded the difference between the two leading parties. The margin is 353 votes.

 

The commission fixed Thursday for a rerun.

 

In a tweet on Monday, Abubakar expressed confidence that the PDP would win in Osun “no matter the ulterior motive of APC.”

 

The former vice-president said the SDP candidate should remember that the PDP believed in him and gave him its ticket when he contested the governorship election in 2014.

 

 

On Sunday, Abdulmumin Jibrin, a house of representatives member from Kano, described the Osun poll as a wake up call for the APC.