FILE: Governor Ademola Adeleke and APC governorship candidate, Bola Oyebamiji
The Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has commended the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in last Saturday’s poll, Bola Oyebamiji, for calling for peace in the state after visiting President Bola Tinubu in Abuja.
In a statement by the governor’s spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, obtained in Osogbo on Friday, Adeleke said Oyebamiji’s demand for peace remained “a positive tone after weeks of heated campaign and election season.”
The statement said the governor, who earlier met with Tinubu on Thursday, described the peace advocacy by the APC candidate as “a good development for the Osun people,” who experienced trauma and violence in the last two months ahead of last Saturday’s elections.
Noting the call for restraint by all political parties, the statement said the governor had reviewed the pre-election climate of fear and conflict and indicated that his team had never subscribed to violence as a weapon of political campaign, even when under severe pressure in the countdown to the poll.
