The election petition filed by the APC and Oyetola is time wasting we are more than ready to defend our mandate

Peoples Democratic Party osun State chapter has filed its reply to the petition filed the state governor Boyega Oyetola and APC in the state to the Election Petition Tribunal.

PDP said by their opposition, the APC is time wasting, that the party if fully prepared to defend it mandate and show that osun people voted for their candidate Senator Ademola Adeleke.

This was stated by the Secretary of PDP legal team Hasim Abioye.

During their visit to the state high court where the Tribunal is being held, he said : "All these people here are witnesses and they have come to show themselves before the secretary that they are ready to sign their witness statement on oath."

"We have twenty-one days ultimate to file our reply but this is the fourteenth day and to show that we are ever ready as fit as a fiddle, we are ever ready as a boy scout to tell you that we are not running anywhere.

"I think, we have more than hundred as you can see here and others are still coming so I can tell you that for us to be able to line up and with others still coming we are fully prepared to defend this mandate to show to you that the election petition filed by the APC and governor Oyetola is time wasting because it was brought in dead and you will see at the end of the day.

"When you see the processes you can approach the Tribunal to see the list of the lawyers on the processes when they are eventually made available to the public. I can tell you that we are confident of victory and like I always say, the petition is time wasting and in fact it is an empty shell.

"Yes, we are confident that the Tribunal will do justice to this. You know they’ve made so much hypes about service on the governor elect, you know the security situation in Ede and so if we are in the state aftermath the election you can see security britches here and there, so, the administration that has not been able to secure the state properly we cannot just open the gate of the governor elect for just anybody to walk in and that is why the law has made provision for substituted service.

"It is part of our jurisprudence and if there’s no provision for it in our jurisprudence,we say that is not normal. I’ve never seen any election petition where the petitioner has been able to serve the governor elect personally,” Abioye concluded.