Osun Guber Poll: Confronting Omisore Is Like Confronting A Violent Organisation – APC

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Monday, inaugurated the campaign committee for the re-election bid of its candidate, Governor Rauf Aregbesola, ahead of the August 9, 2014 governorship poll, admitting that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) standard bearer, Senator Iyiola Omisore, remains the major challenge to the ruling party.

The acting chairman of the APC in the state, Elder Adelowo Adebiyi, who inaugurated the committee, at the party’s secretariat, said the major challenge for the party was Senator Iyiola Omisore, declaring that “confronting Omisore was like confronting a violent organisation.”

He alleged that the PDP and its gubernatorial standard bearer, Omisore “have nothing progressive to offer the people of Osun State except violence, rigging and destruction.”

While noting that the opposition party was allegedly banking on violence before and during the poll as a means of winning the election, Adebiyi said the “PDP believes in manipulation and rigging.”

He, however, tasked the committee members to use constructive peaceful methods to neutralise alleged PDP’s campaign of terror and also educate the people about the critical issue involved in the coming elections.

“The critical issue of this election is whether or not Osun wants to progress or allow terrorists to destroy all that our party has achieved in the last four years. So, you have an idea of what the real task of the committee is,” Adebiyi remarked.

Members of the committee were chosen from the nine federal constituencies of the state with chairmen and secretaries appointed in each of the constituencies.

A critic, who commented on Adebiyi’s statement however called the APC and PDP birds of a feather, noting that both parties want power primarily, “service to the peope is secondary”.

“If PDP was so bad a political party, what was Aregbesola doing at Oyinlola’s residence? What did they discuss in their closed-door meeting? He simply went their to lobby, knowing fully well there is no unity in the PDP at the moment.

“You don’t associate in any form with a party that has nothing to offer ‘except violence, rigging and destruction’,” the critic noted.

2 COMMENTS

  1. Wat is Rauf doing wit PDP chieftain so tail he even went their house to do wat,is that nt anti party activities,Aregbesola should be question,and for APC,i am nt seeing anytin that is progressive in APC;maybe he went there to receive lecture on hw to rig,since Oyinlola is at longerhead wit his party PDP.APC becarefull of your statement.