By Adesina Soyooye
Dr. Iyiola Omisore, a former National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has revealed how the Minister for Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, deceived him into blocking Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, from defecting to the All Progressives Congress from the Peoples Democratic Party. The Minister, he said, told him that they needed to block Adeleke’s entry into the APC.
Omisore said he fell flat for Oyetola’s trick, and went to Channels Television to say all kinds of things against Adeleke, and blocked him from joining the APC.
Omisore lamented that when Adeleke was all set to join the APC, Oyetola called him and said Adeleke’s entry will spell trouble for his (Omisore’s) ambition and thus enlisted him into blocking Adeleke.
But to his regret, he said he didn’t know that Oyetola was just using him to project his own candidate.
Omisore also revealed that President Bola Tinubu, in a discussion with him, admitted that he, Tinubu was responsible for the defeat of the APC by PDP’s Adeleke in the 2022 Governorship election. To prepare for the 2026 Election, Omisore said he gave Tinubu tips on what to do to secure victory for the APC. He disclosed that President Tinubu has taken care of the loopholes, including funding.
He revealed these when he spoke to TVC. “When Adeleke wanted to come to APC, Oyetola was always calling me that this is a problem’’ But he later discovered it was a mistake to have listened to Oyetola.
His words: “When Adeleke wanted to come to APC, Oyetola was always calling
me that this is a problem and we have to resist this. And I went ahead to Channels to resist that defection, not knowing that he (Oyetola) has his own plan to sabotage me.”
On APC’s loss to Adeleke in 2022, Senator Omisore who was, also, a former Deputy Governor of the State said he had a conversation with Tinubu where the President accepted responsibility for losing Osun State.
Omisore he felt terrible over the defeat, and so, made recommendations to the President on how to avoid future losses, “including financing issues which Tinubu has since addressed.”
Not a few people felt that Adeleke’s move to APC was a done-deal, especially, after he had a one-on-one with the President and, also, allegedly, with the National Security Adviser on it. But he suddenly cancelled when Omisore and a couple of other APC members went public with abuses and unprecedented attack against him. A decent character, Adeleke withdrew into his shell and told close friends he couldn’t deal with toxic characters, but emphasized he is backing President Tinubu in 2027.
In a twist, Omisore was, inexplicably, disqualified from participating in the Governorship Primary of the APC. He put the blame on Oyetola who he said backed the eventual APC Candidate – Bola Oyebamji.
Adeleke has since defected to the Accord Party and picked its Governorship ticket.
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