I didn’t win the Offa election, says PDP councillor (Is this for REAL?)

In a rare move, a councillorship candidate of Nigeria’s Peoples Democratic Party, in the 31 August council poll in Offa, Kwara State, has denounced his declaration as the winner of the poll.

Mr. Afolabi Jimoh Olawole, one of the 12 Councillorship candidates declared winners by the Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission, KWASIEC, has declared that the PDP never won in Sawo South West Ward where he vied as the party’s candidate.

According to him, PDP lost in all the eight polling units of the ward while the All Progressives Congress, APC, won convincingly, wondering why he should be declared winner of an election he knew was won by his counterpart in the APC.

He said: “It is very clear that Offa people want APC. Offa people don’t want PDP. As a true Muslim with clear conscience, I stand for equity and justice because I know that whatever we do in this world we are going to give an account to our Creator and I fear my Creator.”

Olawole, who spoke at a press conference addressed by the Elders’ Forum in Offa on Wednesday 4 September, said, as a bonafide citizen of Offa and a person who dearly loves his community, he would not be part of such illegality and injustice being perpetrated by KWASIEC, adding that he has never taken what does not belong to him and would not be part of this kangaroo arrangement.

Is this the beginning of a new Nigeria or how do I place this? However it is, i want to congratulate Mr. Afolabi Olawole for speaking out and saying the truth. He is sure to lose a lot of PDP friends and possible membership, but a clear conscious beats those any day.