Former National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Iyiola Omisore, has fiercely criticized his disqualification, alongside six other aspirants, from the Osun APC governorship primary election.
Recall that the Osun State APC had barred Omisore, Babatunde Oralusi, Oyedotun Babayemi, Dr Akin Ogunbiyi, Benedict Alabi, Adegoke Rasheed Okiki, and Senator Babajide Omoworare from partaking in the upcoming primary election.
Speaking on Arise Television on Tuesday, the former Osun State Deputy Governor described their disqualification as a “joke and embarrassment.”
The former lawmaker argued that the party’s power to disqualify candidates is limited by law.
Omisore linked the controversy surrounding the primary to the factors that led to the APC’s loss in the 2022 Osun governorship election.
He fingered the Minister of Blue Economy and former Governor of the state, Gboyega Oyetola of orchestrating their disqualification.
He accused Oyetola of attempting to impose a candidate on the state.
Omisore said, “In Osun State, we lost election in 2022. After the loss, we did a post mortem how we lost election led by the former Minister of Health, Isaac Adewale.
“The report was submitted and pointed at the fact that the then governor Gboyega Oyetola made us to lose election. And the report said that there are three or four of his cabinet members who aided the loss.
“So it became a problem for the state all over. So that is why we now believe that way further, we should do a thorough primaries. Unfortunately, former governor Oyetola is now sponsoring one of those aiders of the election losses.
“So the entire state leadership is against his position, and he started to impose the candidate on the state. And I want to really explain that I don’t want you to drag President Bola Tinubu to this matter.
“The President is a leader of the country. He has done well for everybody. He has fair to all concerned.
“So in a bit of it as a mixture and confusion about it, we want to win election 2026 so we cannot go the same way, the same route we went to lose election in 2022.”
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