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Clement Adeyi, Osogbo
There was wild jubilation on Friday in Ede, the country home of Ademola Adeleke, who was declared the winner of the Osun State September 22 governorship election by the election petition tribunal sitting in Abuja.
Troops of excited family members, friends, PDP supporters, youths, market women, artisans among others thronged the family home of the Adelekes celebrating the victory.
They chanted diverse victory songs rendered in Yoruba language and dancing away with chanting: “PDP power!, PDP, power,! “Victory at last,” “God has done it,” “Justice has prevailed.”
Party supporters also trooped to the streets in Osogbo singing, dancing and appreciating God for the victory.
There was relative peace across the state, with the assurance of lives and property by the state government.
Adeleke’s elder sister, Mrs Dupe Adeleke-Sanni, in a chat with our correspondent, commended the judiciary for restoring what she described as the stolen mandate to the people of the state and the family.
Adeleke-Sanni dedicated the victory to God and his late brother, the late former governor of the state, Isiaka Adeleke, enthusing that the victory was well deserved.
“We thank God for bringing back our stolen mandate. It is not by our might or power but by God’s grace that we have the mandate back,” she said.
She commended the people of Ede for standing with the family during the trying period and urged them to continue to stand with them.
PDP chieftain and senator-elect, Francis Fadahunsi said Adeleke’s victory was “for the suffering masses of the Osun people.”
A chieftain of the party, Dr Akin Ogunbiyi, who also applauded the victory said: “The two-to-one split decision by a three-man panel of the tribunal which handed victory to the PDP and its candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke, in the September 22, 2018 governorship election, was a confirmation that the truth cannot be hidden for life.”
He added that the supplementary election held on September 27, 2018, was needless and appraised the panel for declaring the supplementary poll unlawful.
Ogunbiyi congratulated the PDP family and the people of the state on the landmark victory.
