#OSUNPOLL: ‘To hell with Ijesaland, I don’t need their votes to win.’ – says Omisore The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the August 9, 2014 governorship election in the State of Osun, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has dismissed Ijesa voters as inconsequential in his bid to rule the state. The Garage-Olode-born controversial politician recently told his aides, who had expressed apprehension at his unpopularity in Ijesaland, that he did not need the votes of the Ijesas before winning the governorship election. One of the aides confided in OSUN DEFENDER that they told Senator Omisore that their survey showed that he (Omisore) would receive less than 20 per cent of the votes in Osogbo, Ijesaland and seven other major cities of Ede, Ila, Iwo, Ikirun, Ejigbo, Gbongan and Ikire.  Omisore-and-Bola-Ige They also told him that he would lose in Ile-Ife and that his strength is in only one local government council area. He then asked them which of the places is the worst, to which they told him Ijesaland. Omisore, at this state, reportedly lost his cool and flew in a rage barking out: ‘To hell with Ijesaland, I don’t need their votes.’ It would be recalled that violence had heralded his campaign in Ilesa recently as his thugs killed one All Progressives Congress (APC) supporter at Irojo, area of the town. This angered had however his few supporters in Ijesaland and many of them have shifted their support for his rival, Governor Rauf Aregbesola. They have vowed not to vote for him but would keep collecting his gifts and later vote for Aregbesola, in line with their conscience, on August 9. The Ijesas are still seething with anger over the death of their iconic scion, the late Chief Bola Ige, first civilian governor of the old Oyo State and the nation’s Attorney General, at the time of his brutal murder in his Bodija Ibadan home. Senator Omisore was charged with his murder as the prime suspect. A few days before Ige’s murder, Omisore had led a group of thugs and roughnecks to attack him at the palace of the Ooni of Ife and had boasted of this in a newspaper. Though the then PDP government in Oyo State had entered nolle prosequi and discontinued the trial, the court neither discharged nor acquitted the suspect, who for long was remanded at the Agodi Prison in Ibadan. Meanwhile, Senator Omisore’s electoral fortunes continue to dwindle as a recently opinion poll conducted by TSN-RMS revealed that Omisore will corner only a paltry 19 per cent of the total votes, while Aregbesola will scoop a huge 69 per cent and Fatai Akinbade of Labour Party will make no appreciable showing at the poll.
Posted on: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 12:48:06 +0000
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