Dislodging APC from Osun difficult but possible -PDP

    
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu,  on Thursday said the task of uprooting governor Rauf Aregbesola and the All Progressives Congress from Osun State would be a difficult task.

He, however, expressed confidence that the party’s candidate, Iyiola Omisore, had what it takes to get the job done.

Mu’azu said this while presenting the certificate of return to Omisore at the party’s national headquarters in Abuja on Thursday.

The national chairman urged the party’s candidate to reconcile with the aggrieved members of the party in the state to ensure that the party enjoyed a smooth ride in the governorship election scheduled for August.

He said, “You should know that your winning this primary is the beginning of a great beginning. The election before you is not a joke, you are going to uproot and remove another political party, it is not easy.

“I am sure you are a man not a small boy. I am sure you are a man not a woman, so you are up to the task. Prove to us and the members of the party that you have all it takes to do it.”

Omisore said he was aware of the task before him and was prepared for it.

He, however, appealed to the party to work with relevant agencies of government to ensure that the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission,  Prof. Attahiru Jega, removes the Osun Resident Electoral Commissioner, Amb. Olutoyin Akeju.

The PDP candidate said his emergence marked the beginning of a new dawn for the people of Osun who were tired of three and a half years of misrule which, he said, the APC administration in the state represented.

Omisore said “The task to uproot APC from Osun State is daunting but surmountable. The journey to remove APC from Osun and indeed the South West is a journey that must be undertaken, with the people behind us, I can assure the national headquarters of our party we can do it.

“I want to inform members of our party that we have an APC as an umpire called Ambassador Akeju. I want to task the national working committee and indeed  Nigerians that for a free and fair election in Osun State, Akeju must go.”