The All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party have disagreed over the August 9 governorship election coming up in Osun State.

The APC in a statement issued on Wednesday by its spokesperson in the state, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, challenged the opposition party to come out and campaign.

The ruling party said the PDP and its governorship candidate, Senator Iyiola Omisore, had stayed back in their cocoon, planning to perpetrate fraud during the poll.

He said, “We challenge them to come out of their coven of fraud, lies and false claims,” adding that even with the encouragement they have from APC’s loss of Ekiti, the PDP still could not summon the courage to campaign across the state.

“That is because they know they lack the support to mount a challenge against Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola.

“Ekiti may have fallen but Osun stands firm; and we are demonstrating it already in the campaign trail.

“What the PDP made possible in Ekiti will be impossible in Osun because the circumstances are different in every material particular.”

But a member of the PDP Board of Trustees, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, during a campaign of the PDP candidate at Oke-bode in Atakumosa-West Local Government Area   said Aregbesola was already “in a deep mess” due to his party’s loss in Ekiti State election.

Babatope said that the PDP was eager to dislodge Aregbesola from Osun State Government House and was just waiting for August 9 to do it.

He said the loss in Ekiti State was the beginning of the collapse of the APC throughout the South-West.

Babatope said, “My brother, Rauf Aregbesola, is in trouble. He is in a deep mess as a result of the Ekiti election’s result. We have witnessed the beginning of the end of the APC in the South-West with the outcome of that poll.”

He said that the APC was desperate having realised that the people of the state had rejected their rule hence the call that the people of the state should go to their polling units armed with charms.