APC accuses Omisore of assassination plot

The All Progressives Congress in Osun State has accused the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate in the August 2014 election, Senator Iyiola Omisore, of plotting to eliminate some prominent leaders within its fold.

The APC claims its accusation came from security tip-off it got from those close to the opposition party in the State. It is therefore calling on indigenes and residents of the area to be on high alert.



The Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy of the APC in Osun, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, said in a statement, “Omisore and the PDP have contracted the assassination of four top APC leaders to hired killers from the Niger Delta for immediate execution.”

“The leaders involved are Alhaji Isiaka Adeleke (the first civilian governor of the state), Elder Peter Babalola, Chief Olu Abiola and Alhaji Fatai Oyedele. The hired killers, APC reliably gathered, have already commenced surveillance on the four leaders. Very credible inside sources from the PDP itself alerted us that Omisore and top members of his party took this decision at a meeting in Lagos on Thursday.

“We are therefore alerting Nigerians of the horrible dimension to which Omisore’s desperation for power has taken. PDP in the state has gone berserk and their diabolical lust for power has become so murderous that they seem to care less about innocent lives.

“The APC therefore alerts Nigerians and all those who care about life and democracy that they should hold Omisore, the Minister of State for Defence, Musuliu Obanikoro, and Police Affairs Minister, Jelili Adesiyan, who are the primary conspirators in this dastardly development responsible for any harm that may come to these APC leaders or any chieftain and members of our party.”

However, in a swift reaction to the claim, Publicity Secretary of the PDP in Osun, Mr. Bola Ajao, denied the allegation in a telephone interview with our correspondent, describing it as “malicious”.

According to Ajao, it is the APC that is known for fomenting trouble in Osun.

He said, “The allegation is not only baseless but ridiculous. We are not after anybody’s life. They are concocting various lies to discredit the PDP having realised that their time is up in the state.

“If they are sure of this, why have they not reported it to the law enforcement agencies? It is a lie. We are going to vote on August 9 and we will vote them out with the help of the voters and nothing more. They are afraid and maybe they are the ones planning what they have claimed in their allegation.”