why PDP Won Osun LG Polls Despite Intimidation And Harassment By Ayangalu Lanlehin Afidipote

The authentic narrative about Osun elections is the massive turnout of voters to exercise their voting rights. They were bitter against APC’s immoral attempt to illegally assume local power. They resisted illegality.

In a situation where security agencies colluded to stop the people from voting despite a court order, the people outsmarted dark powers to vote in their various communities. The people backed the PDP to show the APC that Osun is deeply enlightened and now wise to resist failed leaders of yesterday.

The result is a final win for the Peoples Democratic Party, a party that has sustained its winning game right from the 2022 and 2023 general elections. Expectedly, PDP won today’s local elections contested by 19 political parties.

Before anybody shouted rigging or vite righting, ask them about the outcome of the 2022 and 2023 general elections. Osun PDP not only won the governorship election but cleared all the assembly seats. At 2023 polls, Osun PDP won all the nine House of Representatives seats and the three Senate seats. PDP is an entrenched political force that defeated the incumbent Gboyega Oyetola in both 2018 and 2022 governorship polls.

From 2022 to date, the unpopularity of the APC has deepened. The recent efforts of the APC to gain power through the backdoor even angered the populace more. Hence, PDP expectedly won the council elections by all determining factors.

The APC can reverse its spiraling rating only if it abandons the stupid thought of deploying brutal force to suppress the people. When it was done in 1964/65, it backfired and consumed the political elite. When a similar route was taken in 1983, the system collapsed with many paying dearly for it.

Are Osun APC leaders of today too young to learn from history? Deploying brutal force to suppress people’s aspirations and violate people’s rights is a karmic debt to be repaid with full interest.

Democracy is about the people. The rights of the voters must be respected.

President Bola Tinubu is a democrat and he is much appreciated for standing by the rule of law. He is the leader of all.

To those local power mongers, let’s remind them that those who suppress and confront the people are condemned in the physical and the spiritual realms.