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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)caucus in the house of representatives says the victory of Ademola Adeleke in the Osun west senatorial by-election marks the end of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Adeleke polled a total of 97,480 votes to defeat Mudashiru Hussain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who secured 66,116 votes.

In a statement, Leo Ogor, minority leader of the house, alleged that instead of allowing a transparent democratic process, Rauf Aregbesola, Osun governor, imposed Hussain.

He said his party had launched a counter-offensive campaign that would “sweep off the APC” in 2019.

“APC’s defeat in Osun last Saturday is a signal of the beginning of the end of APC and we congratulate our new senator Ademola Adeleke for leading the charge for de-mystification of Aregbesola and the deceitful promises that APC stands for, we have begun a counter-offensive that would sweep off APC in 2019,” he said.

“While the lacklustre APC candidate had no commendable record of projects in even Ejigbo, hometown during his past stay in the Senate, he was the anointed one imposed by governor Rauf Aregbesola’s fiat instead of allowing democratic processes of choice at the primaries.

“In Osun state and elsewhere, the APC has come to be identified with deadened insensitivity to people’s pains and it was no surprise that while citizens acknowledge that an unprecedented number of Nigerians are losing their minds and committing suicide as a result of bad economic management by the APC government, it has remained pre-occupied with its usual degenerate propaganda.

“Remarkably, while the APC government embarked on a bogus, mindless and self-deceiving euphoria of a mid-term milestone, a poll conducted with APC’s official Twitter handle in May this year showed that 54 percent of respondents rate the APC federal administration’s performance as poor while 33 percent view it as mere average.

“Undoubtedly, lack of solution to worsening unemployment, insecurity caused by herdsmen’s unchecked killing of people across the entire federation and the gross impunity with which opposition members are being hunted, raided and jailed will all facilitate a damning verdict for APC in 2019.”