President Goodluck Jonathan has insisted that his government would massively deploy security operatives to the State of Osun for the August 9 governorship election despite agitation for demilitarization of democracy in the country, especially from activists and opposition leaders.
Addressing a mammoth crowd that thronged the grand finale campaign of the PDP for the governorship poll in Osun, Jonathan said the clamour for security not to be deployed for election was not justifiable considering the incident that occurred during an election in which 10 youth corps members were killed.
Jonathan also made his usual campaign declaration to secure votes for PDP, saying: “We will develop Osun State with Omisore. We need your cooperation to be able to do this. Vote for Omisore and leave the rest for us.”
He warned hoodlums to stay away from the state before, during and after the election or face the full wrath of the law if they attempted to foment trouble in the Osun election, saying that it is his responsibility not only to ensure a hitch-free election but to protect the lives and properties of Nigerians.
Also speaking, the national chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, charged the people of Osun State to replicate what happened in Ekiti by voting for the candidate of the PDP, saying that Omisore is a respecter of traditional institution.
He said what he saw in terms of reception showed him that PDP has worked assiduously to win the election, asking party members to further consolidate on the work done by mobilizing people to vote for the party.
Prominent among chieftains of the party at the campaign were the vice president, Nnamadi Sambo; deputy speaker, House of Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha; PDP national chairman Ahmed Adamu Muazu; chairman of BoT Chief Tony Anenih; chairman, PDP Governors’ Forum Chief Godwin Akpabio, and a number of his colleagues; Chief Bode George; governor-elect, Ekiti State, Mr Ayo Fayose; Otunba Alao-Akala, Chief Buruji Kasamu, and Erelu Olusola Obada.
Osun State Government Reacts
Reacting to the statements of speakers at the rally, the Bureau of Communications and Strategy in the Office of the Governor of Osun said the campaign rally has further established the fact that the party has no plan at all for the development and progress of the state except to return the state to the Stone Age.
In a statement, the director of the bureau, Mr Semiu Okanlawon, said that the PDP rally was so empty that it left the few who paid attention to what the PDP leaders wanted to say bewildered.
“All the PDP bigwigs including President Goodluck Jonathan and Vice Preisdent Nnamadi Sambo could not tell the people in one statement what their party has in stock and what they intend to do differently,” he said.
According to him, what the PDP did with its “so-called” mega rally was to at best just register its presence in the state, having discovered that their candidate has no chance in the August 9 governorship election.
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