Osun govt hails parties, OSIEC, others for peaceful council poll

The Osun State government has hailed political parties, the State Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC), security agencies and the residents for allowing peace to reign before, during and after last Saturday’s local government election.

The government expressed satisfaction with the outcome of the poll, saying it reflected the minds of the people.

In a statement yesterday in Osogbo, the state capital, by his Media Adviser, Sola Fasure, Governor Rauf Aregbesola expressed gratitude to residents of the 71 wards where the election took place for electing leaders who will steer the ship of governance at the grassroots.

The statement reads: “Governor Rauf Aregbesola, on behalf of the state government, will like to thank the good people of the state for the peaceful and successful conduct of parliamentary election into the local government areas, Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs), area councils and administrative offices in the state, last Saturday.

“Governor Aregbesola expresses profound gratitude to the people of the state for voting for all the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as they have always done in the past.

“The pattern of the voting is a demonstration of their unflinching support for the progressive cause. It is a faith that served our fathers, beginning from Chief Obafemi Awolowo and the Action Group (AG) and Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) in the First and Second Republic respectively.

“This has served us also through Chief Bola Ige and Chief Bisi Akande to our present administration under which great and unprecedented developments came.”

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