From FRANCIS AWOWOLE-BROWNE, Abuja
www.sunnewsonline.com
Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Iyiola Omisore, yesterday advised Governor Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola to stop raising false alarm of an alleged plan to destabilise his administration.
Omisore, in a statement in Ile-Ife, said there was no basis for the Osun State governor to resort to mere political blackmail by alleging that top Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders in the state, including himself, were planning a N1billion fund- raising “to subvert his fledgling administration.’’
He pointed out that it was wrong for Governor Aregbesola to have insinuated that the Senate President, Senator David Mark, and himself were “the architects of the plan to raise the huge sum of money for the execution of the plans’’ without having any fact to back up the allegations.
Omisore maintained that the governor “is truly acting a script’’ aimed at diverting attention of the people of Osun State from his ability to get himself settled for the governance of the state since the Court of Appeal judgment that made him Osun State governor.
“It is unfortunate that Governor Aregbesola is making such an allegation when there is nothing of such. As far as we are concerned, he is behaving true to type as they are noted for blackmailing their political opponents by crying wolf when there is none. Nobody is planning to destabilise Osun State. I don’t know why he is raising false alarm,’’ he said.
He emphasised that as a political stakeholder in Osun state, there was no basis for him or any other PDP leaders to raise any fund to bribe the state House of Assembly for whatever purpose not to talk of destabilising the state as alleged by Governor Aregbesola. “If he is unable to get himself settled on time, I think he needs not blame anybody for that and how can he resort to making frivolous allegations, which he cannot substantiate? How can he be claiming that we are planning to raise N1 billion to bribe members of the Osun State House of Assembly (OSHA) and the police before instigating crisis in Osun State? That is ungodly and uncalled for,’ ’he added.
Omisore pointed out that the time had come for the politicians, especially ACN members, to do away with frivolous allegations capable of threatening the nation’s growing democracy, particularly as the nation prepared for the 2011 general elections. The Senator then challenged Governor Aregbesola to come up with fact about his allegations “If he is sure of what he is saying, it is not enough to just raise false allegation because you want to score cheap political point,but you must be bold enough to substantiate your allegations. Aregbesola should be bold enough to substantiate his allegation not that he will just stay somewhere and be mentioning names.”
“He should be bold enough to let Nigerians know more about his allegations, which we all know is totally false; that has been their usual style of politics. We know their political style, blackmailing and misinforming people, but he should know that Osun people are reasonable. He should forget about raising false alarm and settle for his business if actually he had any programme for the state,’’Senator Omisore noted.
Omisore, in a statement in Ile-Ife, said there was no basis for the Osun State governor to resort to mere political blackmail by alleging that top Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders in the state, including himself, were planning a N1billion fund- raising “to subvert his fledgling administration.’’
He pointed out that it was wrong for Governor Aregbesola to have insinuated that the Senate President, Senator David Mark, and himself were “the architects of the plan to raise the huge sum of money for the execution of the plans’’ without having any fact to back up the allegations.
Omisore maintained that the governor “is truly acting a script’’ aimed at diverting attention of the people of Osun State from his ability to get himself settled for the governance of the state since the Court of Appeal judgment that made him Osun State governor.
“It is unfortunate that Governor Aregbesola is making such an allegation when there is nothing of such. As far as we are concerned, he is behaving true to type as they are noted for blackmailing their political opponents by crying wolf when there is none. Nobody is planning to destabilise Osun State. I don’t know why he is raising false alarm,’’ he said.
He emphasised that as a political stakeholder in Osun state, there was no basis for him or any other PDP leaders to raise any fund to bribe the state House of Assembly for whatever purpose not to talk of destabilising the state as alleged by Governor Aregbesola. “If he is unable to get himself settled on time, I think he needs not blame anybody for that and how can he resort to making frivolous allegations, which he cannot substantiate? How can he be claiming that we are planning to raise N1 billion to bribe members of the Osun State House of Assembly (OSHA) and the police before instigating crisis in Osun State? That is ungodly and uncalled for,’ ’he added.
Omisore pointed out that the time had come for the politicians, especially ACN members, to do away with frivolous allegations capable of threatening the nation’s growing democracy, particularly as the nation prepared for the 2011 general elections. The Senator then challenged Governor Aregbesola to come up with fact about his allegations “If he is sure of what he is saying, it is not enough to just raise false allegation because you want to score cheap political point,but you must be bold enough to substantiate your allegations. Aregbesola should be bold enough to substantiate his allegation not that he will just stay somewhere and be mentioning names.”
“He should be bold enough to let Nigerians know more about his allegations, which we all know is totally false; that has been their usual style of politics. We know their political style, blackmailing and misinforming people, but he should know that Osun people are reasonable. He should forget about raising false alarm and settle for his business if actually he had any programme for the state,’’Senator Omisore noted.
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