PDP group warns Omisore against attacking Adeleke

Senator Iyiola Omisore

The Forum of Ex-Political Office Holders, under the Peoples Democratic Party government in Osun State, has warned Senator Iyiola Omisore against denigrating the first executive Governor of the state, Alhaji Isiaka Adeleke.

The forum gave this warning in a statement made available to our correspondent in Osogbo on Monday.

The statement was signed by a former Commissioner for Education, Alhaji Fatai Hassan, an ex-Special Adviser to the Governor on Local Government Affairs, Alhaji Kamarudeen Olagoke and others.

Adeleke last week joined the Osun State governorship race and appealed to all aspirants on the platform of the PDP to refrain from provocative statements and violence.

According to the statement, the  forum has over 1,400 former members of the National Assembky, state House of Assembly,  local government chairmen and other categories of political office holders.

The statement read, “The entry of Alhaji Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke into the governorship race under the banner of our party is a welcome development and one that guarantees the greatest possibility of our party regaining control of the state government in August 2014.

“Alhaji Isiaka Adeleke is the only political heavy weight, who delivered his pooling booth, ward and local government to the PDP in the 2011 general elections.”

“He possesses the required goodwill, contact and support among workers, market women, men, traditional ruler, religious rulers and others to win the governorship election, if eventually fielded by the PDP.

“That no amount of threats, blackmail and intimidation will dampen the morale of the teeming party members, whose spirits have been highly lifted since the entry of Senator Adeleke into the governorship race.

“We passionately appeal to Senator Iyiola Omisore to, as a matter of urgency, call his political aides, who have been responsible for the series of false and misleading articles, to order and avoid utterances and conduct, which are capable of dire consequences, especially to the office of the President and the national  leader of the PDP.”

But Omisore denied the allegation levelled against him, saying he never sponsored any article in any newspaper.

The governorship aspirant, who spoke through his media aide, Mr. Diran Odeyemi, said it was even wrong for the ex-political office holders to use that forum.