The Social Democratic Party’s candidate in the September 22 and 27 Osun gubernatorial polls, Iyiola Omisore, has denied being promised a senatorial ticket by the All Progressive Congress after he drummed support for the party in the rerun election.
The former federal lawmaker representing Osun East came third in the poll while People’s Democratic Party’s Ademola Adeleke and Gboyega Oyetola of APC emerged second and the first respectively.
Mr Omisore was speculated to have been promised a senatorial ticket for Osun East senatorial district in the 2019 elections amongst other juicy offers including the retrieval of his international passport seized by the EFCC.
Meanwhile, in an interview with a day after the Osun election, the APC national chairman, Adams Oshiomole, denied placing a monetary offer before Mr. Omisore as a way of seeking his support.
When quizzed, Mr Oshiomole was quoted to have said;
- “I don’t like those words ‘automatic tickets.’ I was careful even after the meeting we had with our lawmakers not to use those words.”
Also, former aviation minister and a PDP chieftain, Femi Fani-Kayode, mockingly stated on Saturday that Mr Omisore was jilted by the APC having denied him the Osun East Senatorial ticket.
- “So my former cousin Iyiola Omisore did not get the Senatorial ticket for Ife East from the APC after the dirty job he did? The only thing he got from them was his passport. Some just got served. It never pays to sell ur (your) soul to the devil. His infamy and treachery is legendary,” Mr. Fani-Kayode posted on Twitter.
PREMIUM TIMES gathered that the Director of Gboyega Oyetola’s Campaign Organisation in Osun East, Ajibola Famurewa, is the APC senatorial candidate for Osun East.
However, in a telephone interview with PREMIUM TIMES, Mr Omisore’s media aide, Jide Fakorede, said his principal was never promised a senatorial ticket.
“We were never promised any senatorial ticket. Fine, there was an agreement but no senatorial agreement,” he said.
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