Breaking: Adeleke (PDP candidate) rejects re-run election in Osun state

Adeleke

Ademola Adeleke, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Osun state, has rejected today's re-run election as a "charade" which must not be allowed to stand.

Adeleke's position, disclosed in a statement by his campaign office Thursday afternoon, was hinged on the widespread reports of voters intimidation and other forms of violence which marred the re-run election, especially in Orolu local government area.
He said.

The whole world is witnessing a charade in the name of election, a deliberate effort at imposition of a discredited leadership on the suffering people of Osun State through undisguised brutal force.
Applying all standards, today's supplementary poll is a non-event as all norms of electoral process are violated.

There have been several reports that today's re-run election has neither been free nor fair since polls opened across the four local government areas identified for the exercise after the main process on Saturday was declare inconclusive.