The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the August 9, 2014 governorship election in Osun State, Dr. Iyiola Omisore, has faulted the redeployment of the former Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state, Ambassador Akeju, to the state as a ploy by the Prof. Attahiru Jega-led Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to scuttle the process of his appeal against the declared victory of the APC candidate, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola.

*Omisore

He said Akeju is back to stultify, scuttle, frustrate and hinder the process of inspecting all the materials by installing obstacles to completely slow or totally hinder the PDP’s efforts to inspect the electoral  materials.

Addressing a press conference in Osogbo, the state capital, Omisore accused the INEC boss of complicity in the redeployment saga for being insensitive to the partisan disposition of the former REC who was deployed from the state shortly before the election.

According to him, the Peoples Democratic Party in 2010 filed a suit at the Federal High Court, Osogbo asking the court to disqualify Akeju from being appointed as Osun REC  on the grounds that he was a close associate of Alhaji Bola Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos State and ACN sympathizer because he would not be a fair umpire in the conduct of the state gubernatorial election.

Speaking further, he said the Federal High Court in its ruling restrained Akeju from parading himself as the Osun State Resident Electoral Commissioner from conducting the 2011 general elections and also ordered that INEC should replace HIM so as not to jeopardise the conduct of the elections.

Omisore wondered that INEC disregarded the order of the court, allowed  Akeju not only to parade himself as the Osun State REC but also conducted the 2011 elections in the state.

He described what he called the relegation of the rule of law and flagrant disrespect for Court Order by highly placed public officers such as Jega and Akeju a plan to ensure the continued control of the state by ACN without consideration to the yearnings and demands of the electorate.