The Chairman of the Osun State Impartial Electoral Fee, OSSIEC, Hashim Abioye has revealed that delicate supplies had been distributed to native governments some days earlier than February 22 controversial native authorities elections within the state.
Abioye additionally added that earlier than the OSSIEC head workplace was closed down, workers of the fee day by day fed the deployed safety personnel day by day.
The OSSIEC Chairman made this revelation whereas defending the February 22, 2025 native authorities election throughout query and solutions session of the forty seventh version of The Frontliners of the League of Veteran Journalists, LVJ, Osun State on Wednesday in Osogbo.
He stated, “We distributed election supplies to all native governments, Tuesday earlier than the election. We did all we had been imagined to do and the election should maintain.
“No safety brokers got here to our places of work with out being fed. We gave them three sq. meals of their numbers. We by no means did something improper to the safety brokers.
“The election happened in opposition to their want and can, that’s why they condemned it.
“The election consequence was declared and my job is to declare it.”
The OSSIEC boss additionally disclosed that the Fee had intelligence reviews that some people had been out to scuttle the election with out justification, which led to makes an attempt to frustrate the method.
In keeping with him, “there have been even requires my arrest previous to the election, regardless of efforts made to make sure credibility and equity.
“We had settled all the pieces and even amended the timetable to permit for any points,” he added.
He additionally revealed that OSSIEC had info suggesting that some safety personnel had been searching for him and his workforce earlier than the polls.
The Fee’s Chairman said that he issued nomination kinds to the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun State on credit score, when the occasion complained of being in need of funds forward of the election.
Talking on his position, he emphasised, “That shall be left for the politicians. My very own is to inform the entire world who’re the respectable elected Osun native authorities officers.”
On the query of legitimacy, the OSSIEC boss argued that the APC members that had been elected throughout the controversial October 22, 2022 native authorities election within the state now not had any legitimate tenure following judicial pronouncements.
“What is going on in Osun from the facet of APC is sheer vanity and failed ignorance. They know they don’t have any tenure operating as a Federal Excessive Court docket of legislation has invalidated the election that introduced them to energy,” he said.
He defined that the election carried out earlier by OSSIEC had been nullified by the courtroom, and the officers had been eliminated.
“Their request for a keep of execution was rejected by the courtroom.
“Two judgments sacked them. They appealed the 2 and deserted one. The Federal Excessive Court docket gave judgments on the 2 choices. The implication of abandoning a choice is that it stays binding on the events. The enchantment can’t be relisted,” he clarified.
The Chairman expressed disappointment on the involvement of the Inspector Basic of Police, IGP, and the Legal professional Basic of the Federation, AGF, within the Osun native authorities election.
“What’s the enterprise of the IGP in Osun LG election?” he queried.
Sustaining that the one respectable native authorities officers in Osun had been these elected within the February 22, 2025 polls, he insisted that the rule of legislation have to be revered.
“The IGP and AGF had been improper on the stand they took on the Osun native authorities election. The AGF is barely utilizing his workplace to suppress the desire of the folks of Osun State,” he concluded.
