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TheAll Progressives Congress has accused the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State of planning to deliberately cause crisis in the state with its interpretation of the ruling of the Appeal Court.

The Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy of the APC in Osun State, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, who said this in a statement on Wednesday, called on security agencies in the state to be at alert to prevent the opposition party from throwing the state into confusion.

The Court of Appeal had thrown out the appeal filed by the Independent National Electoral Commission and the Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Ambassador Rufus Akeju, seeking to upturn an earlier judgment of a High Court that Akeju could not preside over the 2011 election in the state because of his alleged relationship with former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu.

The PDP interpreted the striking out of the appeal to mean that all elections conducted by the REC had become invalid and state lawmakers and members of the National Assembly from the state should be sacked.

The statement read, Security agencies should be prepared to nip in the bud the threat to peace and security, which the Peoples Democratic Party has become over the issue of the Appeal Court ruling in Akure, which struck out INECs appeal against its Resident Electoral Commissioner, Amb. Toyin Akeju, from supervising the 2011 legislative elections in the state.

From competent information we have and the intelligence deductions we could make from the PDP chairman, Alhaji Gani Olaoluwas statement to forcefully stop the lawful business of the State House of Assembly, it is obvious that the PDP planned to orchestrate mayhem in the state.

Had there been a declaration, ruling or judgment on the 2011 legislative elections by the Federal High Court, Osogbo? We should ask the mischievous PDP people: what was the issue the INEC appealed against? Did it include that pertaining to the elections for which the High Court did not restrain it from conducting? In fact, the High Court refused that prayer.

We therefor appeal to the security officials not to allow illiterates, who are currently leading the PDP in the state, to throw Osun into confusion.

We are particularly grateful for the response of the State Police Command, which put paid to PDPs attempt to create mayhem at the State House of Assembly on Monday and we also like to emphasise that the threat to peace and security from the PDP is not over yet.

Olaoluwa had said the implication of the appellate courts ruling was that lawmakers produced by the election, which Akeju supervised, should be sacked.

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PDP planning anarchy in Osun -APC