There is palpable tension in Osun
ahead of the rerun election slated for Thursday, as hundreds of military
personnel replace police to provide security during the exercise.
Our reporter on Wednesday morning
observed heavy deployment of military men in Osogbo, the Osun State capital,
and Ifon, in Orolu local government, while several other military vehicles were
moving towards Ile-Ife.
A reliable security source told
our reporter that the decision to change the security architecture of the state
against the Thursday’s rerun election was mandated from the “top” to give some
level of leverage to the ruling party.
The rerun
which was necessitated by the inconclusive gubernatorial election of Saturday
was billed to take place in seven polling units at Osogbo, Orolu, Ife South,
and Ife North local governments.
Meanwhile, there have been
accusations and counter-accusations between the two leading parties in the
contest, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP.
While the APC accused PDP of
embarking on voters’ inducement by buying PVCs, the latter alleged that the
ruling party was not only buying PVCs but criminally cloning it to manipulate
electoral process to its advantage.
PDP also accused the APC
government of victimising and threatening lives of some of its leaders,
including a former ally of Governor Rauf Aregbesola, who recently defected to
PDP, Alhaji Fatai Diekola.
However, it was gathered
that both APC and PDP are in desperate scramble to lure over three thousand
voters in the seven polling units with money, ranging from N50,000 to N100,000.
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