A goup,“The Osun Progressive”, a factional group within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has cautioned the party leadership against backing the ambition of former Deputy Governor of the state, Senator Iyiola Omisore to become the National Secretary of the party.
The factional group, believed to be loyal to former Governor of the state and now Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, in a statement issued by its Chairman, Adebiyi Adelowo noted that support for Omisore for the party’s secretary position is a dangerous dimension.
“We have not ceased from sounding a note of warning to the APC leader who has embraced a fair-weather friend, who is carrying the albatross of complicity in the death of our leaders, Chief Bola Ige.
“As a caucus of progressives, we owe ourselves a duty to caution our leaders and other members of the party on the forthcoming National Convention of the party, as regards the inordinate ambition of Senator Iyiola Omisore.
“Omisore joined our party in 2021. Before then, he had been a consistent antagonist of our tendencies. He was one of the military politicians who found abode in AD before he joined the PDP when his inordinate ambition could not be realized.
He was in PDP between 2002 and 2018. He joined SDP in 2018 to contest the governorship election where he lost to Governor Gboyega Oyetola. He joined the APC to save his face.
“It is unfortunate that a set of people have found an ally in a person described as a wolf in wolf clothing’ by Chief Adebisi Akande, who said Omisore crept into his life like silent cancer.
It is more unfortunate that the leaders, among those who are two governors in the South-West, are supporting a stranger who does not share or believe in the progressive’s ideology to take over the Secretariat of the party.
