The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has called on the international community to take keen interest in the campaign process leading to the August 9 governorship election in the state.
The interest, according to the party has become necessary because “it will critically impact on the election itself.”
In a statement, its Director of Publicity, Mr Kunle Oyatomi said from all indications while the APC and governor Aregbesola are hyper-active in their campaigns, the opposition PDP is lacklustre with their campaigns.
Oyatomi said the PDP propaganda machine is loudest in letting Nigerians know that plans have been concluded to remove the APC and its governor from office, against the popular will of the people.
He said the expression of the people’s popular preference is already being registered daily since the campaigns started. “From Ile Ife to the latest mega rally in Ede, the crowd has swollen so exponentially that the latest experience in Ede on Tuesday was unprecedented.”
He said that both Ile Ife and Ede rallies were significant because they are the hometowns of PDP’s governorship candidate and his deputy respectively.
He said that neither of them is capable of pulling the kind of crowd and support that the APC candidate and incumbent governor Aregbesola has attracted in both towns.
“We are looking at a scenario here that gives irreversible indication of the popularity of the governor which should be replicated at the polls hopefully. So, it should interest the world what kind of plan the PDP has in place beside the verdict of the ballot box that is capable of reversing victory for the incumbent governor.
“We are not unaware of the desperation of the PDP to retain the presidency at all costs, and that winning in the West is a key factor in that desperation which has already produced a strange upset that is being explained away in a silly concept of ‘stomach- infrastructure’ in Ekiti State.
“We are also aware of what role the military and police played in Ekiti election that seriously compromised the process. In the run-up to Osun election, so far, so fair, yet so sinister that the opposition PDP, which is so unpopular on the ground, is bragging about some strange plan that will be effected to give it victory on August 9,” he added.

APC urges international community to take interest in Osun guber