This year is probably a year where the hunter is being hunted. When you talked about PDP in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore is a major factor. Even in prison, when he was allegedly implicated in Bola Ige’s death he won his senatorial election under the era of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Many notable politicians left PDP because of threat from the camp of Senator Omisore. The testimony of late Senator Adetunji Adeleke is still fresh in mind when he thanked his God for being alive in 2014 to join the APC. He said he left the PDP because of Senator Omisore.
But this time, the March 25 congress of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State, in which Mr Soji Adangunodo emerged as the substantive Chairman of the party in the state, Senator Iyiola Omisore is set to dump the party.
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According to the report from Daily Post, it was gathered from the former lawmaker’s camp that the former member of the National Assembly is consulting widely on the alternative political platform he could realise his age-long gubernatorial ambition.
A credible source from his camp told our reporter that the body language of the National body of the party does not favour Omisore, the fact that played out in the newly concluded congress of the party, where Omisore’s faction†was utterly ignored.â€
“As it is, it is crystal clear to everybody that the National Secretariat has pitched it’s tent with the Adagunodo group, hence the need for us to move on and mobilise our people against the governorship election slated for September 22.
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“Omisore is a household name in the political landscape of Osun, he is not a greenhorn in the power play, he understands the terrain better than anyone.
“As it is, he is consulting with leaders of our group to ascertain a better and credible platform as an alternative machinery to achieve his ambitionâ€.
Our reporter further gathered that a meeting, comprising all the foot soldiers of the former Chairman of the Senate Appropriation Committee was held in Gbongan, in Ayedade local government of the state over the weekend, in which many of them considered Social Democratic Party (SDP) as a better alternative.
It would be recalled that Omisore’s faction had on Saturday, March 24, 2018 alleged that the ongoing congress in the state by the PDP was null and void, citing a †directive from the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which allegedly mandated its Osun State officials to stay away from the exercise.
However, the commission came out to debunk the statement, adding that congress remained strictly party affairs and not within the purview of the electoral umpire.
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Meanwhile, the newly elected Chairman of the party in his acceptance speech in Osogbo sought supports from party members to collectively take the party to a greater height.
He also called on aggrieved party members to bury their hatchets and work towards taking the mantle of leadership from the ruling All Progressive Congress(APC).
www.sojworld.com © April 5, 2018
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