By Henry Umoru

ABUJA— AHEAD of Saturday’sOsun State gubernatorial poll, national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, boasted yesterday that it was already winning the election, following what it described as massive acceptance by the voting population during its last rally in Osogbo, weekend.

The PDP, however, accused the All Progressives Congress, APC, of chasing shadows using media propaganda and bogus opinion polls.
The party said its candidate in the election, Senator Iyiola Omisore, was using his existing structures to vigorously engage in all-inclusive campaign with very strong message, which resulted in the current overwhelming followership he had in Osun State.

In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, PDP boasted that its candidate was coasting to victory because of wide-spread political structure and a track-record of abiding affinity and loyalty to Osun people as factors.

He added that the fact that the PDP allowed a free and fair primary, which threw up the people’s choice as candidate, also gave it an early mileage ahead of the APC as was the case in Ekiti State.

The party said:   “We have a very popular and hard working candidate with very strong bond with the people of Osun State; a candidate with the most extensive political structure in all the nooks and crannies of the state with an unrivaled track-record of loyalty to the people who have now queued behind him ahead of August 9.

“Nigerians are witnesses to the fact that based on his popularity, Omisore would have become governor in 1999 and 2003 respectively but sacrificed his personal ambition to accept the position of deputy governor out of humility and commitment to the stability of the state.
“On these two occasions, he obeyed his people and made reference to God’s appointed time.”