Omisore hints of alleged plot to assassinate him

By Gbenga Olarinoye

OSOGBO—Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the last governorship election in Osun state, Senator Iyiola Omisore yesterday raised an alarm that some people suspected to be leaders of one of the parties in the state have concluded plans to assassinate him to cover up issues concerning the August 9 election.

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Omisore, in a statement in Osogbo by his Media aide, Mr. Victor Oriola, therefore called on security agents to increase security around Senator Omisore to forestall the blood thirsty vampire in the party from carrying out their evil machinations”.

The statement read in part: ”We are constrained to inform the general public, especially the security agents that we have uncovered plots to assassinate Senator Iyiola Omisore in order to cover up the electoral heist perpetrated on August 9, 2014.

“This is coming on the heels of startling revelation coming from the Osun State Election Petition Tribunal handling the petition of Senator Omisore and it is better for the security to have the information to be able to know how to prevent the inhuman act.

“The dwindling political fortunes of the said party in the south west is responsible for this sinister plot that is meant to silence those who are considered as a threat in the region.

“The plot which is being coordinated from Lagos state started around June this year when some assassins who have been on the trail of Senator Omisore during the governorship campaign broke into his house in Lagos. Some of the people apprehended by the police are yet to be charged to court since then.

“We have noticed that whenever Senator Omisore comes to the venue of the Osun State Election Petition Tribunal at Oke-Fia, he is being trailed by an unmarked vehicle, ostensibly to monitor his movement. Because of this development, Senator Omisore has been advised not to appear personally in court in order to forestall these unscrupulous elements from perpetrating their evil deed.”

No discrepancy in Osun election result

—PDP expert witness

Meantime, the expert witness of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in the August 9 election in Osun State, Mr Samuel Oduntan has confirmed to the state Election Petition Tribunal that there was no discrepancy in the results of the election he analysed for his principal.

The witness who claimed to be a statistician early in his witness statement also made a u-turn while giving oral evidence before Justice Elizabeth Ikpejime-led tribunal yesterday, saying he is not a registered statistician.

He said he used Certified True Copies, CTCs, and duplicates of the result forms of the election which had earlier been tendered by the petitioners and he found no discrepancies in the course of his analysis.

“I am not from Osun, neither did I monitor the election, but I was employed by the petitioners to do the analysis of the election materials”, he confirmed.

Omisore and the PDP are challenging the August 9 re-election of Governor Rauf Aregbesola and the All Progressives Congress, APC, while the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was joined as a party.

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Omisore hints of alleged plot to assassinate him