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A former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Lasun Yusuff has made a shocking statement about the 2018 Osun gubernatorial election.
According to him, the poll was rigged and the agents used in carrying out the act had been duly compensated with plum positions in the current administration.
He made this remark duringa radio current affairs programme in Osogbo on Friday
He added that that by insisting that “no man born of a woman can rig him out in the next election”, he meant that whoever was planning to rig the 2022 gubernatorial election and this repeat the rigging of the 2018 gubernatorial election would be judged by God.
According to him, his statement was a note of warning to politicians not to be a nuisance and criminal adding that any act of rigging would come back to hunt that perpetrators.
He noted that the processes leading to the rerun and the statement of President Muhammadu Buhari that it was remotely controlled were all pointers that the APC did not win the election fair and square.
In his words, “Rauf Aregbesola did well in claiming Osun for the progressives having led from the frontline. He is three things to me; he is my elder brother, friend and confidant.
“When I wanted to contest as Deputy Speaker, he called me and told me he may not support me on that but while I wanted to contest the 2018 Osun gubernatorial election, he did not say anything to me. At first, I held it against him but as for now, it is all in the past.
“When Governor Adegboyega Oyetola had a meeting with me, I told him to go round, meet the people and address aggrieved members of the party. I advised him to leave governance for a while so that he can bring the party together and I also asked him why he was disagreeing with Rauf Aregbesola.
“I told him that since both of them are from the same camp, he settle his differences with him. I don’t know if he took my counsel or not.”
Reacting, the Osun State All Progressives Congress has described the statement credited to the former Deputy Speaker House of Representatives as spineless and lacking substance.
In a statement by the Osun APC spokesperson, Barrister Kunle Oyatomi, the party dismissed the statement in totality adding that such claims could only come from a very desperate, dishonourable, and selfish politician, seeking public attention by misleading the citizenry.
