Osun Group Predict Victory For APC Candidates...

A group known as Osun Progressive Force has predicted victory for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress , Senator Mudasiru Hussain , in the forthcoming by- election to fill the vacant seat of the Osun Senatorial District at the Senate .
The seat became vacant after the death of Senator Isiaka Adeleke on April 23 , this year.
The group position was contained in a statement signed on its behalf by Mr . Teslim Latona , in Osogbo on Monday .
It said the performance of Governor Rauf Aregbesola would have positive impact on Hussain , saying many of the voters in the senatorial district would prefer to support the candidate of the political party which, the group said , had brought dividends of democracy to them .
According to the group , deep pocket and reliance on electoral malpractices will not work in this poll because the electoral umpire will not allow the election to be manipulated and that the APC had been winning elections convincingly in the area long before now .
The group noted that the APC won the overall result in the 10 local government areas in Osun West during the 2014 governorship election in the state and also did the same in the general elections of 2015 aside winning overwhelmingly the House of Assembly poll in the area .
The statement partly read, “ We can hazard a guess that the electorate in the Osun West Senatorial District are likely to be more interested in holding on tightly to the dividends of democracy that they have so far acquired from the APC government in terms of good urban and rural infrastructure, good health care system , provision of well - equipped schools, promotion of employment opportunities especially in the agricultural sector , visible urban - rural renewal programmes and promotion of a secure and conducive environment devoid of civil insurrection.
“All of the claims made above are products of scientific observations of the socio -economic and political situation in the Osun West Senatorial District in the period between 2014 and now.
“Without mincing words, we intend to confirm that as long as good governance is an effective predictive index for future elections in Nigeria , winning the July 8 th by- election in Osun West Senatorial District is positively skewed in favour of the APC and its candidate.”
It added that based on this, Hussain would defeat the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the poll , Chief Ademola Adeleke .
However, the Secretary of Adeleke Support Group , Alhaji Lukman Afolabi , when contacted disagreed with the prediction of the OPF .
Afolabi said Adeleke would emerge victorious in the by- election because the electorate in the senatorial district had abandoned Aregbesola because of the way he treated the late Adeleke , who worked so hard for his re- election in 2014.
He said , “The prediction that the APC will win the by election is wrong and the public will see this on July 8 . The masses have left Aregbesola and his party because of their anti- people behaviour and policies .
“Who are the people that will vote Senator Hussain because of Aregbesola’ s performance ? Are you saying the teachers and the civil servants , who have been receiving half salaries for the past two years or the market women who are protesting their policy will vote for the APC ?
“The people were with Senator Adeleke because he lived his life for them and they have seen that in Otunba Ademola Adeleke . So , they are ready to go with him anytime .”