A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State, Pelumi Olajengbesi has said that the landslide victory of the PDP across all National Assembly seats in Osun State again confirmed the indisputable popularity and acceptance of Governor Ademola Adeleke in the state.

Olajengbesi said it is a daylight shame and travesty that former Governor Gboyega Oyetola can’t deliver any National Assembly or presidential victory for his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Saturday’s presidential election.

Of note, the PDP in Osun cleared all the National Assembly seats in the state. The PDP won in all the three Senatorial districts and the nine Federal Constituencies.

Fadeyi Olubiyi (Osun Central), defeated Senator Basiru Ajibola, the Senate spokesperson, Senator Francis Fadahunsi (Osun East), who was reelected and Lere Oyewumi (Osun West).

Olubiyi polled 134,229 votes to defeat Ajibola who polled 117,609 votes.Fadahunsi polled 127,877 votes while Israel Famurewa, APC candidate polled 95670 votes and Oyewumi polled 138,476 votes to defeat Amidu Tadese of APC who polled 104,459.

According to Olajengbesi, a former House of Assembly candidate for Oriade constituency in Osun, the embarrassing loss of the APC in Osun yet again proved that Oyetola is a featherweight which the good people of Osun State rejected outrightly at the July 16 2022 governorship election.

The lawyer called on Oyetola and his co-travellers to face the reality that the people of Osun State have seen the light and won’t ever want to go back to the dark days of the APC — both in the state and at the federal level, especially in the position of Nigeria’s next president.

Similarly, PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar polled 354,366 votes to defeat Bola Tinubu of the APC, who scored 343,945 votes, according to the results announced on Sunday by the the state’s collation officer for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Folashade Ogunsola.

Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) got 23,283 votes, while Rabiu Kwankwaso of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) had a paltry 713 votes out of the total 756,744 votes cast for the presidential election in the state on February 25, 2023.

Commenting, Olajengbesi said, “The commanding, indisputable and overwhelming victory of all PDP National Assembly candidates in the February 25 presidential election in Osun State again goes to shows the popularity and widespread acceptance of His Excellency Governor Ademola Adeleke who led the party to victory in the state.

“Also, the victory of the PDP presidential candidate, a North-Easterner from Adamawa, in a South-West state and a Yoruba-dominated one at that is testament to Adeleke’s efficient leadership and effective grassroot mobilisation, capability, tenacity as well as the widespread support, love and cooperation he enjoys from the good people of Osun State.

“It is a political blow that former governor Gboyega Oyetola and his co-travellers in the APC couldn’t deliver Osun for the APC senatorial and House of Representatives candidate and in fact, Tinubu despite that many of them claim the former Lagos State governor is an indigene of Osun State. How then can an individual who can’t deliver his state for his party’s presidential candidate claim he won the July 16 2022 governorship election? How? What a public display of shame!

“The people of Osun State have spoken again and loud at that! Oyetola should quit fighting a legal war whereas he has been rejected totally by the people of the state through the ballot box. The people want Adeleke and only Adeleke they want.”