By Lekan Bilesanmi

Osun State All Progressives Congress (APC) has challenged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state to produce a certified true copy (CTC) of the pronouncement of the Court of Appeal, which sat in Akure, on Friday, that stated that the elections of federal and state legislators, conducted by the state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Rufus Akeju, in 2011, had been nullified.

‘’Until the PDP can produce that certified true copy of the Appeal Court’s pronouncement, Nigerians and particularly the citizens of Osun should totally discountenance the PDP’s   claim that the court has nullified the elections of their legislators,’’ the APC said in a statement, yesterday.

‘’There’s no such declaration by any court of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. What the PDP has fed the public with is not only a misinformation, it is also a blatant lie’’, the Osun APC said in a statement by its Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, Barrister Kunle Oyatomi.

‘’For factual information to the public on this matter, the APC hereby states as follows:

Before the 2011 elections were held, the PDP went to the Federal High Court , Osogbo to stop Amb. Akeju, the Resident Electoral Commissioner, from supervising the said elections on the allegation that the commissioner was a card – carrying member of the ACN (now APC) and a close associate of Senator  Bola Tinubu, APC National Leader.

‘’The Osogbo Federal High Court granted the PDP an interlocutory injunction restraining Akeju from supervising the conduct of the elections but refused the prayer that INEC be restrained from conducting the polls. However, INEC immediately appealed and obtained a stay of execution of that ruling pending the determination of its appeal’’.