Former Deputy Governor of Osun State and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Iyiola Omisore, has described Governor Ademola Adeleke as a “political orphan” amid rising speculation that the Osun helmsman may be considering defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the APC.
Naijaonpoint reports that Omisore made the remarks during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday.
When asked if Governor Adeleke’s rumoured plans to switch to the APC were good news to him, he said he was not aware of that.
He said, “I’m not aware, but the point is that when you want to come to a party, there must be a willing section of the party members, you must come to the home because politics is very local. What are they bringing to the party? In the 2022 election, APC garnered 375,000 votes, PDP had 403,000 votes, and the difference between them was 3.97 per cent. This 3.97 per cent includes those who worked against the party, like former governor Aregbesola and other leaders of the PDP who have all moved to the APC now.
“For the past three years, he has been governing that state, with no single decampee of APC to PDP. Meanwhile, one over seventh of PDP members have moved to APC, which you know, of course, Alhaji Isa Oyedokun, Dayo Babayemi, Hon. Wole Oke and others are still coming.
“As a governor, you are popular enough to take another party. The governor of Abia has now left the APC for a new party. Why do you want to force yourself on the party? Why is the governor (Adeleke) begging to enter the party? He is struggling, begging and fighting (to join APC).”
Speaking on the opposition coalition, Omisore described opposition politicians as hawks, saying he is not worried about them.
“I am not worried at all, because there are hawks among them. All of them have the same goals.
“You can see that after that meeting, Obi said he wants to be president, Atiku and Amaechi, then Aminu Tambuwal said the same thing. Politics is not mathematics; it’s reality,” he said.