Osun Bye-Election: CSCEOS uncovers plan by Aregbesola to use Ambulance for rigging
An Osun state based Civil Society Organization (CSO), the Civil
Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State(CSCEOS) has
uncovered plan by the State governor,Mr. Rauf Aregbesola to use State
owned ambulance vehicles to perpetrate electoral fraud by using it to carry
ballot boxes stuffing with ballot papers as well using it to board
political thugs imported from Lagos with their sophisticated weapons
to various poling units across the Osun west Senatorial district during
the forthcoming bye-election .
The group also disclosed that the State government had concluded
arrangement to make use of refuse vehicle for the same purpose in the
units where number of available ambulance could not reach to carry out
the nefarious electoral fraud during the poll,alleging that all the
political thugs to be used by the State government had been lodged in
an hotel around Islahudden Grammar School,Ring -Road area,Osogbo in
the State capital .
A credible source from government house, Oshogbo informed the civil
group that Mr. Aregbesola and his team came up with the idea of using
emergency ambulance vehicles as a way to beat the security operatives
deployed to monitor the forthcoming bye election in the state by
deceiving them that they carried emergency person to the hospital
during the poll.
This was contained in a statement issued by the CSCEOS’ Directorate of
Media and Strategy, which was signed by its Chairman, Comrade Adeniyi,
Alimi Sulaiman and copies were made available to newsmen on Tuesday,
declared that the government house source which crave anonymity, said
that Aregbesola had given verbal directive to the new State
Commissioner for Health, Dr Rafiu Isamotu to make all the ambulances
in the custody of State Ministry of Health and Hospital Management
board available for electoral purposes.
The statement has it that the same directive was also given to the
State Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Bola Ilori who was inner
member of the Aregbesola’s Planning Committee of the Bye-Election, to
release all the refuse vehicles in the Ministry of Environment for the
same purpose ahead of Saturday Osun west Bye-Election.
It enjoyed the good people of the State to be vigilant by exposing and
reporting any suspected movement of ambulance and refuse vehicles
before and during the forthcoming bye-election in the State to the
security agents, noting that all the effort of Mr. Aregbesola to rig
the bye-election would be thwarted by the people of the Zone.
According to the statement, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola has been hell bent in
rigging the forthcoming bye-election in favour of his anointed
candidate, Mudasiru Hussein, with the collaboration of the few bad
elements in the electoral umpire and security operatives in order to
thwart the wishes of the people of the Senatorial district, advising
the electoral officials and security personnel deployed for the
bye-election to remember the outcome of 2015 general elections and
River State bye-election by letting their conduct during the poll, be
of apolitical and professionalism.
It therefore urged all the security agents deployed to monitor the
election to be at alert before, during and after the bye-election by
not allowing any miscreants to disrupt the peaceful conduct of the
election, urging that anything capable of breaching the peace and
orderliness of the conduct of the poll should be nipped in the bud.
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