Obanikoro daydreaming over Osun tribunal’s proceedings -APC

(NIGERIA) The All Progressives Congress has likened the comment of former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musliu Obanikoro, on the proceedings at the Election Petitions Tribunal, as that of a man hallucinating under the influence of drugs.
The Director of Publicity, Reserach and Strategy of the APC in Osun State, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, said this in a statement made available to our correspondent in Osogbo on Monday.
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Iyiola Omisore, who came second, dragged the winner of the August 9 governorship poll in Osun State, Governor Rauf Aregbesola, to the tribunal.
Reacting to the interview  which the former minister allegedly granted a newspaper, the APC spokesperson said the claims of Obanikoro,  who recently lost the governorship ticket of the PDP  in Lagos State, was very far from reality.
Oyatomi said that Obanikoro distorted the facts in the petition to deliberately misinform the public while urging that the PDP chieftain should be sanctioned.
He said, “Obanikoro is in contempt of court with that statement which was obviously designed to misinform the public against evidence before the tribunal.
“Only  a drunken man or one in the stupor of drug overdose would arrive at Obanikoro’s conclusion which runs against the grain of evidence so far produced at the tribunal.
The  implicit in Obanikoro’s statement is the insidious impunity of the PDP to present a fait accompli in a case that is ongoing in the court.
“The idea is to give a false impression that the PDP has secured a favourable judgment in a case in which evidence is still being produced by witnesses.
“The PDP’s bluff is characteristic of that party’s arrogance of impunity inspired by its gross misuse of power that has become notorious.”
“Obanikoro should be sanctioned by the tribunal  for contempt of court for unlawfully preempting the tribunal’s  decision on who actually won the August 9 governorship election in Osun State .”

The APC said that two  of the witnesses called by petitioners, Samuel Oduntan and Pius Bakare, who claimed to be forensic experts admitted faults before the tribunal in the purported analyses they carried out on the election materials for the petitioners to prove their case.

-THE PUNCH-