Credible source informed the Nigerian Tribune that barring any hitch, Omisore, who polled 1,128 votes in the last Saturday gubernatorial primary, supervised by the former governor of Kebbi State, Alhaji Adamu Mohammed Aliero, in Osogbo will get the certificate at the Wadata Plaza, headquarters of the PDP.
The event, which ought to have been held yesterday was said to have been put on hold due to the absence of the PDP chairman, who travelled outside the federal capital territory on official engagement.
Already, a delegation of the Osun State chapter of the PDP, led by the chairman, Alhaji Ganiyu Olaoluwa, had arrived in Abuja for the ceremony.
Though, one of the PDP governorship aspirants, Senator Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke, who boycotted the primary informed newsmen at a gathering in Ede, on Tuesday that his petition and appeal to the electoral panel over alleged malpractices in the primary election which produced Omisore was already receiving the attention of the PDP and the Presidency, Nigerian Tribune gathered that the certificate of return would be presented to Omisore.
Confirming the development to our correspondent, Omisore’s Director of Media and Publicity, Prince Diran Odeyemi said all arrangements had been concluded for Omisore to receive the certificate at the party secretariat.
“I can confirm to you that Omisore would get the certificate of return on Thursday and this is the confirmation of his victory at the last week Saturday primary election held in Osogbo, where he recorded a landslide, polling 1, 128 to defeat others. We have absolute confidence that he would win the August 9 governorship election and rescue Osun people from the shackles of poverty and hopelessness, which had hindered the masses since Aregbesola’s administration in the state.”
Osun PDP primaries: Omisore’s candidacy is a ruse - Adeleke •Remain in PDP or leave —Omisore
The last may not have been heard about the April 5 governorship primaries of the Osun State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which produced Senator Iyiola Omisore as the candidate of the party.
A former governor of the state and an aspirant who boycotted the exercise, Senator Isiaka Adeleke, on Tuesday, described Omisore’s candidacy as a ruse, saying “it was a laughable charade.”
He alleged that the list of the authentic delegates were retrieved from the chairman of the five-man electoral committee, headed by a former governor of Kebbi State, Alhaji Adamu Mohammed Aliero and substituted with fake list used to conduct the primaries.
Adeleke, who made this known at what he termed a reception party for his would-be delegates, in Ede, said he was in possession of a Close Circuit Television (CCTV) footage of the alleged beating he received from the incumbent Minister of Police Affairs, Alhaji Abdul Jelili Adesiyan, Omisore and one Sogo Agboola, on the premises of an hotel, in Osogbo, last week Wednesday.
According to Adeleke, “When they assaulted me physically, the electricity supply to the hotel was abruptly put off, but they never knew that the CCTV had a device that can record for sometime before the restoration of power. I have all these evidences and I have concluded plans to press charges against all of them, who turned me into punching bags.”
However, in a swift reaction, the director of media and publicity of Omisore Campaign Organisation, Mr Diran Odeyemi, said the former governor had perfected plans to defect to the Labour Party (LP), stressing that he was being used by Governor Rauf Aregbesola to disrupt the peace of the PDP, having allegedly being induced by the governor.
Said he: “Adeleke is a politician, who could be used by any politician to cause disaffection within the political party he belongs to.”
Counselling Adeleke to remain in the PDP in his own interest, he pointed out that Omisore had extended olive branch to him, adding, however, that if he was comfortable in PDP, he could leave.
He expressed optimism that “Omisore will emerge the next governor of Osun.”
Earlier, Adeleke had, at the reception party said “we are here to celebrate and appreciate the commitment and support of our people for the PDP. I started this journey when the leaders of our party realised that PDP may produce a candidate, who may eventually lose the governorship election.
“All the aspirants have forwarded petitions and complaints to the national headquarters of the PDP and the election petition panel and they have confirmed receipt of our grievances and promised to look into it”.
“Our petitions have been acknowledged by the national chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, the Presidency and security agencies and we have the hope that action would be taken over the matter.”
The former governor said that “I appeal to our members and teeming supporters to continue to work for the PDP and the second term of President Goodluck Jonathan.”
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