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Ademola Adeleke, senator-elect for Osun west, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) does not practise democracy.

Adeleke said this while speaking with journalists after collecting his certificate of return from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The senator-elect said he followed the required electoral process and emerged unopposed in the APC primary election but “they started their manipulation.”

“I used to be in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) but I am back home now,” Adeleke said.

“My interest was in APC, but it was when I got there, we discovered that they don’t practise democracy.”

Earlier, Solomon Soyebi, national commissioner of INEC, who presented the certificate to the lawmaker,  appealed to citizens to always create the enabling environment for peaceful elections.

“I must commend the people of Osun west for the way and manner they conducted themselves in the election,” he said.

“They conducted themselves in a peaceful, friendly and ideal atmosphere for elections. They have set a role model or standard for others to emulate. The people of Osun have shown us how elections should be conducted.”

Soyebi said if citizens conduct themselves in a peaceful way as the people of Osun west did, the work of the commission would be easier.