Dr Adetokunbo Pearse,
Chairman, Strategy and Mobilisation, Social Democratic Party (SDP), South-West
zone, on Wednesday said that it was not feasible for the party to support the
All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Osun governorship re-run election.
Pearse expressed the view
in Lagos while reacting to advances from the APC and PDP for SDP’s support, to
enable them to win the Osun re-run election on Thursday.
“Don’t forget we have an
agreement at the national level; the MoU we signed with 35 other parties to
jointly fight the 2019 elections and other elections, and oust APC
administration.
“I don’t see why the SDP
will align itself with an administration that has failed the nation. We will
not support APC and I will be shocked and be very disappointed if our party has
anything to do with APC in Osun,” Pearse said.
On whether the party’s
position on the matter had been discussed at the national level, the SDP
chieftain said that the position of the party’s national leaders was to talk
with PDP.
He said that the party
would actualise its national agreement with the PDP and others to work
together.
Pearse, a university
teacher, condemned the APC’s failure to demonstrate clear ideology on
restructuring, payment of workers’ salary and other welfare packages for
Nigerians.
PDP and APC chiefs had
claimed to have secured the support of Iyiola Omisore, who came third in the
Sept. 22 governorship election in Osun.
The elections, contested by
48 political parties, was declared inconclusive by the electoral body on the
ground that the margin of PDP’s victory was lesser than the number of cancelled
votes in seven polling units.
Ademola Adeleke of the PDP
scored the highest with 254,698 votes ahead of Gboyega Oyetola of the APC, who
polled 254,345, while Omisore, who hails from Ife Central Local Government
Area, polled 128,049.
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