Osun APC Commends OAU for Denying Affiliation with Faceless Democracy Polling Agency

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has commended the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) for denying any affiliation with the Democracy Polling Agency. This faceless group fraudulently claimed to have carried out a survey that showed the state chapter of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been harvesting APC members.

The APC finds it ludicrous that the PDP would go to the extent of employing fictitious bodies to confer a non-existent positive status. The APC is one united entity under the leadership of Alhaji Oyetola and the state Executive Committee under the chairmanship of Sooko Tajudeen Lawal.

The Democracy Polling Agency had falsely claimed to have conducted a survey between August to October 2024 on the state of political parties in Osun State. The survey stated that the opposition party in Osun State had split into two halves with the Omoluabi faction holding roughly 45 per cent of the old APC membership with the remaining about 60 per cent being with the Oyetola faction, tagged Ileri-Oluwa group.

The survey also stated that parts of the reasons for the passive mass exodus of the APC members to the PDP was because of the impressive performance of the sitting Governor Adeleke, the rigidity of the state APC leadership to reconciliation moves, the slow response of former Governor Oyetola to discontinue his governorship bid and the worsening economic climate and series of disasters that had befallen the party leadership in some local government councils.

The Osun State chairman of the PDP, Mr Sunday Bisi, commended the fraudulent survey in a statement. He described the impressive performance of Mr Performer, Governor Ademola Adeleke, as a focal point of attraction bringing new members across all parties most especially from the embattled faction of the former governor, Ileri-Oluwa group.

The Public Relations Officer of the OAU, Mr Abiodun Olanrewaju, denied any affiliation with the Democracy Polling Agency. He stated that he was not aware of any affiliation with the group and that it is not to his knowledge.

The APC is of the opinion that if Sunday Bisi, the Ede country-home appointed state PDP chairman has a modicum of conscience left with him, he should, without further delay, tender his letter of resignation for misleading the party and head straight to his beer-parlour business in the remotest part of the ancient town of Ilesa.

The APC also challenged Sunday Bisi, Governor Nuru, and their cohorts to swear with their most precious valuable possessions in life that the last series of elections in the state, which produced the House of Assembly members, National Assembly members, and the governor himself, were not without killings and maiming, orchestrated by the PDP thugs, which subsequently gave fraudulent victory to all the PDP candidates.

The APC reminded Sunday Bisi and the satellite governor that the blood of about 30 members and supporters of the APC, who were needlessly killed by the PDP thugs in order to rig the elections for all the candidates of the now-ruling party, won't allow them to have a rest.

The APC appealed to their esteemed members to continue to remain focused and united and the members of the public in general to disregard the fraudulent survey of the faceless Democracy Polling Agency, which is only existing in the imagination of the apparently jittery PDP handlers in Osun State.

In conclusion, the APC reiterated that they are one united entity under the leadership of Alhaji Oyetola and the state Executive Committee under the chairmanship of Sooko Tajudeen Lawal.