Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has described as mere wishful thinking, the remark by Vice President Namadi Sambo, that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will take-over the state.

This was just as the governor said Sambo had impugned on the integrity of the judiciary by referring to the judgment of the Election Petition Appeal Tribunal that restored his (Aregbesola) mandate after the 2007 governorship poll as verdict through “the back door.”

Aregbesola, in a response through his Director, Bureau of Communication and Strategy, Semiu Okanlawon, said Sambo could not have been referring to Osun State, where the people had demonstrated their total rejection of anything that had the traits of PDP.

Sambo’s statement, Okanlawon said, aptly captured the depth of self-delusion and deceit by PDP, a development he blamed on alleged total failure of the PDP-led Federal Government in all facets of the Nigerian life.

He said: “Sambo’s statement did not come to us as a surprise. It is the character of the PDP and its leadership to live in a different world far away from the stark realities that daily confront our people. For the umpteenth time, we wish to remind Sambo and its entire PDP structure and its candidate for the Osun August 9 poll that Osun has remained different for so many reasons and this is why the macabre dance PDP and its agents of electoral fraud organised in Ekiti cannot be replayed here in Osun.

“Has Sambo forgotten so soon that, while PDP reaped from its electoral fraud in all parts of Nigeria in the 2011 election, it was only in Osun that PDP recorded its most humiliating defeat.

“In case Sambo has not thought about it, that was less than six months of the Aregbesola administration, when not much had been put on ground in form of sterling performance and massive transformation of Osun.”

He stated that more than three years down the line, Osun people have witnessed unprecedented development in various ways, adding: “Peace has returned, wealth has been created. Lives have been saved and improved.”

Aregbesola has touched lives in the education, food production, youth employment, and other sectors.”

Aregbesola stressed that “this state has been rescued from the morass it was plunged in almost eig What then does Sambo expect his party to woo the people of Osun with in an election that is less than one month?”

Responding to Sambo’s derogatory comment on the judiciary,  the statement said the verdict of the Tribunal confirmed PDP robbery of the 2007 poll.

“In some saner climes, PDP and it’s leaders ought to apologise to the entire country and the people of Osun in particular for the trauma they were subjected due to the robbery of the Are gbesolas mandate. But the culture of impunity which PDP promotes won’t give room for such decency. It must however be noted that never will our people embrace the rule of terror and cluelessness which PDP represents.” The statement concluded.