Omisore Can’t Become Governor In Osun State — Uncle

Barely a month before the governorship election that will take place in Osun State, western Nigeria, on 9 August, 2014, an uncle to Iyoola Omisore, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has declared that his nephew cannot defeat the incumbent governor, Rauf Aregbesola.

PMNews reports that Ipoola Omisore, who is the lawmaker representing Ifako-Ijaiye Constituency 2 at the Lagos State House of Assembly, stated that for his nephew to govern Osun State he would have to return to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

According to the senior Omisore, Iyoola lost his chance to become governor of Osun when he moved to PDP from the Alliance for Democracy, AD, the party on which platform he became the Deputy Governor in the administration of Bisi Akande in the state.

* Lawmaker Ipoola Omisore

The newspaper recalled that Iyoola left the AD in a desperate bid to rule Osun State.

The 65-year-old lawmaker said the defection of the former deputy governor to the PDP was his undoing because since he defected, he had not achieved that goal of becoming the governor of the state.

Ipoola, who is the Chairman of the House Committee on Special Duties and House Services, said his nephew is not as bad as being portrayed, but that he must return to the progressives, which he called “home”.

The lawmaker advised his nephew to return to the APC where the worst governor is better than any governor under the PDP.

Ipoola was also quoted urging the younger Omisore that the Omisore family is known to belong to progressive movement as he disclosed that their father was a financier of the then Egbe Omo Oduduwa, which later metamorphosed into Action Group and one of the early stakeholders in Tribune Newspaper.

He argued that the incumbent governor is more popular and more of a grassroots person in Osun than his nephew.

“Iyi (as Iyoola Omisore is fondly called) is my brother; he cannot be governor until he returns to the family party. He is straying away into strange lands. Iyi will come back one day.

“I just wrote a book titled ‘Thoughtful And Thoughtless Thoughts’, a compilation of my Facebook postings. In one of those postings, I wrote that I have a dream that one day, Iyoola Omisore would return to APC and I wrote a lot of things concerning it.

 * Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun

“He will be governor, but he must come to the party where he can have it. The party he is in now is where he can make money, he must come to the part where he would serve the people,” the lawmaker was quoted in the report.

It could be recalled that since the emergence of Ayodele Fayose, a candidate of the PDP, as the governor elect in the recently held governorship election in Ekiti State, many people have been saying the same fate might befall Governor Rauf Aregbesola in Osun State.

According to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Fayose defeated the incumbent Governor of Ekiti, Kayode Fayode, a candidate of APC, in all the local government areas to become the governor elect that would be sworn-in in October, 2014.

The APC has since condemned the governorship election, saying there were many irregularities and security intimidations during and after it was conducted by INEC.

Source: Legit.ng