By Kola Adeyemi
Lagos – The Deputy National Secretary of the Peeoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hon Setonji Koshoedo has congratulated Senator Ademola Adeleke on his victory at the just concluded Osun State governorship election.
Koshoedo in a statement issued and personally signed by him also congratulated the state electorate for their resolve and faith in the nation’s electoral process.
The Deputy National Secretary similarly rejoiced with party members in the state for the victory of the PDP in the election.
According to him, the success and result of the Osun State elections is much welcome because it has returned the state to its traditional political roots in the Peoples Democratic Party.
Koshoedo then urged Adeleke, the governor elect to join Governor Seyi Makinde, the current leader of the PDP in the South West, and work in concert with him to make members of the party in other states in the zone to close ranks and rally round for the success of other candidates in subsequent elections.
He said this has become necessary for the party to recover the South West from the incompetence of the ” opposition party and its current ruinous policies.”
“This is even more imperative now that votes of the people are beginning to count,” he said.
Koshoedo also urged the party members and the entire people of the zone not to rest on their oars till the whole of South West is returned to true progressive democracy.
He advised party faithfuls and the entire people of the South West to replicate the same result in Oyo, Lagos Ogun as well as Ondo and Ekiti States in future elections .
It will be recalled that 15 political parties participated in the Osun State gubernatorial elections which was held on Saturday, July 16, 2022 .
In the election, the PDP candidate, Senator Ademola Nurudeen Adeleke emerged victorious by scoring 403, 371 votes to beat the All Progressives Congress and incumbent governor, Isiaka Oyetola who scored 375, 027 votes. (vitalnewsngr.com)
