The Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has commended the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in last Saturday’s poll, Bola Oyebamiji, for calling for peace in the state after visiting President Bola Tinubu in Abuja.
In a statement by the governor’s spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, obtained in Osogbo on Friday, Adeleke said Oyebamiji’s demand for peace remained “a positive tone after weeks of heated campaign and election season.”
The statement said the governor, who earlier met with Tinubu on Thursday, described the peace advocacy by the APC candidate as “a good development for the Osun people,” who experienced trauma and violence in the last two months ahead of last Saturday’s elections.
Noting the call for restraint by all political parties, the statement said the governor had reviewed the pre-election climate of fear and conflict and indicated that his team had never subscribed to violence as a weapon of political campaign, even when under severe pressure in the countdown to the poll.
Rasheed said the governor recounted the pain he went through to restrain his supporters from retaliating against attacks, adding that Accord lost 15 members, with 20 injured and scores in police detention.
“I am forever a man of peace. It is heartwarming that my brother, Oyebamiji, is also preaching peace. I assure him that my supporters have not and will not attack APC members.
“Elections have come and gone and we are all winners. The common task for us all is to sustain delivery of democratic dividends and good governance to the good people of Osun State.
“I welcome Mr Gboyega Oyetola, Bola Oyebamiji and other opposition leaders to join hands with me to take Osun to greater heights. We are all important stakeholders in this Osun project,” Adeleke said.
The PUNCH reports that the incumbent Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, was declared elected by the State Returning Officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission on Sunday, Prof. Joshua Ogunwole.
Adeleke won the governorship poll with a total of 511,067 votes to defeat Bola Oyebamiji of the All Progressives Congress, who polled 444,815 votes.
Source: punchng.com
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