APC members and supporters were seen celebrating at first, both at the Ileri Oluwa along Ogo-Oluwa area and Oranmiyan campaign Offices, Gbodofon area but later took to the major streets in Osogbo, the state capital.
Also in Ilesa, Ila, Ikirun and many other strong hold of the party in the state, celebrations by party faithful were reported.
The Election Petition tribunal in its majority judgement had favour Senator Adeleke, while at the Appeal, Oyetola had secure the majority judgement. Supreme court on Friday July 5th 2019 in its majority judgement of Five against two declared Oyetola as duly elected and dismissed the appeal filed by Senator Ademola Adeleke and PDP against INEC, APC and Gboyega Oyetola.
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party's Presidential candidate in the 2019 general election who is a Former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has said he joined other people of goodwill to stand with Senator Ademola Adeleke both in good times and in difficult days adding that the Supreme Court is the finality as the case is over.
"I join with people of goodwill all over Nigeria to say to Senator Ademola Adeleke, and the people of the great state of Osun, that we stand with them in good times and in difficult days. "
Atiku said: "Those who think this is the end of the road for Senator Adeleke and the PDP in Osun, are greatly mistaken. This is not the end. Not even the beginning of the end. No. Today marks the continued ascendancy of Senator Adeleke and his party in the hearts and minds of his people."
"The great people of Osun had expected that the progress and development that the Adeleke family had consistently brought to Osun will be translated to their governance. That hope is not dead. Only delayed."
"I extend my right hand of brotherhood to Senator Adeleke in all his future endeavours and I assure the good people of the state of Osun that the Peoples Democratic Party remembers their love and acceptance and will never forget to stand by them no matter the situation."
!Finally, I urge the nation’s judiciary to take a pulse of the nation and reflect it. In their hands, God has placed a great responsibility. The duty to ensure that justice is done, irrespective of the pressure to do otherwise, by the powers that be." Atiku concluded.
Members of APC were reportedly saying “The Progressive God that Osun people serve heard their prayers and granted their request;
“That Gboyega Oyetola, who won last September ‘s governorship election, should be so confirmed by the Supreme Court.
“God has used the highest legal authority of the Land to proclaim the truth that Oyetola lawfully won. And that is historic!!!”
The above was how the highly elated spokesperson of Osun APC, Barr. Kunle Oyatomi, reacted to the Supreme Court’s judgment which has finally determined that the PDP lost the governorship election.
According to the APC chieftain, “our fears for the calamity that might have befallen the state of Osun, if the PDP had been declared winner, have now been assuaged.
“We are overjoyed for this amazing Grace!!”, Barr Oyatomi exclaimed.
The APC declared that, “those who had wished for a different outcome have a lesson to learn here, that there is a natural limit to which you can stretch evil.
“It was this limit the PDP got in their attempt to stage a miraculous upset at last September’s election.
“And subsequent efforts to spin the law at the Tribunal unraveled in the Court of Appeal and finally died at the Supreme Court today.
“The details are now history” the APC said, adding that, “for good measure, this is not simply a victory for the party alone; it is a victory for the good people of the state of Osun.”
The APC continued, “Providence has by this verdict, put a stamp of approval on the exceptional developments achieved in the state during the last eight years.
“God also stopped the evil in its track that had planned to dismantle the hard earned human, social, economic, environmental and structural developments that Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola and his team established in the state of Osun.
“The thought of it was devilish in the first instance, but even more despicable was the arrogance with which the PDP went about town boasting that it would destroy everything that Aregbesola did in the state.
“But thank God, we are not mourning, neither are we mocking the opposition. We are simply telling them that now is the time to change and move on, to become a factor for good in Osun’s politics.
“We in the APC and majority of the good people of Osun will welcome any errant but repentant PDP politician, who sheds negativity and joins hands with us to transform further this wonderful state of Osun.
“May the good Lord give governor Gboyega Oyetola the wisdom, strength and foresight to expand the legacy he inherited and set Osun on the irreversible course of that God and the entire people of Osun will be proud of”, the APC asserted.
"I join with people of goodwill all over Nigeria to say to Senator Ademola Adeleke, and the people of the great state of Osun, that we stand with them in good times and in difficult days. "
"The Supreme Court has ruled and because of its judicial finality, the legal case is over."
"However, the love, acceptance and endorsement that the people of Osun bestowed on both Senator Adeleke and the PDP is not over and cannot be overlooked."
"I extend my right hand of brotherhood to Senator Adeleke in all his future endeavours and I assure the good people of the state of Osun that the Peoples Democratic Party remembers their love and acceptance and will never forget to stand by them no matter the situation."
!Finally, I urge the nation’s judiciary to take a pulse of the nation and reflect it. In their hands, God has placed a great responsibility. The duty to ensure that justice is done, irrespective of the pressure to do otherwise, by the powers that be." Atiku concluded.
However, following the antecedents of PDP thurgrisms in the past and violence which is synonymous with the party in the state, many of the residents were pleased with the judgement of the Supreme court which favour the incumbent Gboyega Oyetola.
Members of APC were reportedly saying “The Progressive God that Osun people serve heard their prayers and granted their request;
“That Gboyega Oyetola, who won last September ‘s governorship election, should be so confirmed by the Supreme Court.
“God has used the highest legal authority of the Land to proclaim the truth that Oyetola lawfully won. And that is historic!!!”
The above was how the highly elated spokesperson of Osun APC, Barr. Kunle Oyatomi, reacted to the Supreme Court’s judgment which has finally determined that the PDP lost the governorship election.
According to the APC chieftain, “our fears for the calamity that might have befallen the state of Osun, if the PDP had been declared winner, have now been assuaged.
“We are overjoyed for this amazing Grace!!”, Barr Oyatomi exclaimed.
The APC declared that, “those who had wished for a different outcome have a lesson to learn here, that there is a natural limit to which you can stretch evil.
“It was this limit the PDP got in their attempt to stage a miraculous upset at last September’s election.
“And subsequent efforts to spin the law at the Tribunal unraveled in the Court of Appeal and finally died at the Supreme Court today.
“The details are now history” the APC said, adding that, “for good measure, this is not simply a victory for the party alone; it is a victory for the good people of the state of Osun.”
The APC continued, “Providence has by this verdict, put a stamp of approval on the exceptional developments achieved in the state during the last eight years.
“God also stopped the evil in its track that had planned to dismantle the hard earned human, social, economic, environmental and structural developments that Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola and his team established in the state of Osun.
“The thought of it was devilish in the first instance, but even more despicable was the arrogance with which the PDP went about town boasting that it would destroy everything that Aregbesola did in the state.
“But thank God, we are not mourning, neither are we mocking the opposition. We are simply telling them that now is the time to change and move on, to become a factor for good in Osun’s politics.
“We in the APC and majority of the good people of Osun will welcome any errant but repentant PDP politician, who sheds negativity and joins hands with us to transform further this wonderful state of Osun.
“May the good Lord give governor Gboyega Oyetola the wisdom, strength and foresight to expand the legacy he inherited and set Osun on the irreversible course of that God and the entire people of Osun will be proud of”, the APC asserted.
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