The All Progressives Congress (APC) said on Thursday vowed that it would do everything to ensure a peaceful conduct of the August 9 governorship election in Osun.
Senator Chris Ngige, APC chieftain and former governor of Anambra, made the statement when he spoke with newsmen after a meeting of the party’s leaders at Government House, Osogbo.
Ngige said the meeting was centred on how to ensure that peace prevails before, during and after the election.
“Peace is what we have been talking about because we need peace to conduct election but sometimes to achieve peace, we have to make extra efforts,’’ he said.
Also, Mr. Segun Oni, a former governor of Ekiti, said the party would do everything possible to ensure that Osun election was credible, free and fair.
The party’s National Deputy Chairman (South) said “We are going to prevent what happened in Ekiti. What we have seen in Ekiti is a new dimension to voting; it is a new dimension to election rigging.
“Congratulatory message from the party to the PDP does not mean we cannot exercise our right.
“Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti said if the election was the will of the people and did not say it was the people’s will.
“We have since discovered that the election was actually not the will of the people. Fayemi’s position has always been in tandem with that of the party,’’ Oni said.
According to him, there is no shade of disagreement between Fayemi and the APC on the election, hence the party can go to court to seek justice.
It would be recalled that Mr. Ayo Fayose of the Peoples Democratic Party defeated Fayemi, the incumbent governor in the June 21 poll.
The meeting was attended by Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun, Sen. Babafemi Ojudu, Sen. Sola Adeyeye, Gov. Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and conspicuously absent was Dr Kayode Fayemi.
Other leaders of the Party present at the meeting were Lai Mohammed, the APC National Publicity. Mallam Nasir El-Rufai-,Kawu Baraje and Osun State Deputy Governor, Titilayo Laoye- Tomori.
