Former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba, has actually exposed how he was allegedly rigged out of workplace during the 2003 governorship election when he sought re-election.

Osoba discussed that he had earlier received an intelligence report that election results were currently prepared, stating he was warned to back out of the survey.

The Oluwo of Oba, who stated he demanded proceeding with the contest, spoke in Abeokuta on Wednesday, at the book launch and the 60th birthday of his former Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Kayode Odunaro.

DAILY POST reports that Osoba, who had contested under the Alliance for Democracy (ADVERTISEMENT), lost to his follower, Otunba Gbenga Daniel of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The veteran reporter also revealed how he shared N140million on the eve of the election by bowing to pressure from his followers.

The octogenarian stated that he did not challenge the result of the election in court regardless of the evidence at his disposal, because he had put the experience behind him.

He said, “The 2003 election, I have actually put it behind me many years ago. 2003 is bygone. Nobody anticipated that the election would go the method it went, however I understood it would go the way it went since the figures had already been prepared.”

Osoba stated some security had offered him “the figure of the outcome that they were going to announce.”

He remembered investing money and how some individuals took his “cash to sleep in hotels and pocketed exact same,” saying, “in politics you should find out to engage in inefficient costs and you must discover to buy all type of lies.”

“I knew that the election was concluded, I was cautioned, the electoral officer from Cross River had actually informed me after the Presidential election that, ‘Chief don’t contest the governorship, it is concluded’, however I said no.

“We shared N140million on the eve of the election and I understood it was a squandered cash, but I shared it because if I didn’t share it, they would state if I had actually not provided the money, they would have won.”

The previous guv while talking about the book entitled, ‘Colour of Perception– An Autobiography’, scolded Odunaro media aide for playing down the intrigues that characterised the 2003 election in the publication.