PROTESTERS STORM INEC OFFICE IN OSUN
-By Joseph Omoniyi
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP supporters have trooped out in their hundreds on Monday, to protest the state rerun governorship election ordered by the commission at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission .
The protesters who raised placards with various inscriptions such as “No To rerun, “INEC don’t conspire with APC”; “The people spoke on Saturday, announce the results ” among others, stormed INEC office to demand a change in the commission’s decision over the Osun governorship election conducted last Saturday.
They castgated the INEC for not declaring Senator Ademola Adeleke the winner of the poll having scored the highest number of votes in the poll.
They said the people of the state had spoken that majority of the voters wanted Adeleke as the state governor and that should be respected.
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