Jonathan, Osun PDP disagree on election result

President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday differed with the Osun State chapter of the party on the outcome of Saturday’s governorship election won by Governor Rauf Aregbesola of the All Progressives Congress of Nigeria.

While Jonathan and the national leadership of the PDP conceded defeat to   Aregbesola , the PDP in Osun rejected the election result.

The APC candidate who is the incumbent governor of the state polled 394,684 to defeat his PDP counterpart, Iyiola Omisore, who scored 292,750 in the final results announced by the Returning Officer, Prof. Bamitale Omole, on Sunday morning.

Jonathan, in a   statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati,   congratulated the winner and said the peaceful conduct of the election reaffirmed his administration’s determination to positively reform Nigeria’s electoral processes.

He added that the outcome of the election vindicated him from what he called unfair   allegations that measures put in place by the Federal Government for the Ekiti and Osun state elections were designed to achieve favourable results for the PDP.

The President   commended the Independent National Electoral Commission and   security agencies for ensuring that the election was free, fair, credible and peaceful.

But in Osogbo, the PDP in Osun State faulted the process that produced Aregbesola, saying some of the figures published in the media were unacceptable to it.

The party said through its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Bola Ajao, that it had earlier written a petition to INEC, complaining about the process in some units.

Ajao, who was also an agent of the PDP, said he refused   to sign the election results form given to all agents at the INEC office in Osogbo.

He said, “I cannot sign. We cannot accept the outcome of the election. My principal, Iyiola Omisore, knows the next line of action. We will decide what to do. We had earlier written a petition to INEC to establish our complaints.”