Omisore, who accused the state government of twisting facts, spoke in a statement issued by his media aide, Mr Victor Oriola, at the weekend, a
copy of which was made available to the Sunday Tribune.
“The attention of Senator Iyiola Omisore Campaign Organisation has been drawn to a comment from the spokesperson of the Osun State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, accusing the ruling Peoples Democratic Party of running a campaign based on falsehood due to lack of credible candidate to challenge Governor Rauf Aregbesola in the 2014 race.
“We would not have reacted, but we noticed the penchant of the state government to always twist facts, engage in blame game and misrepresent the true state of its inability to deliver on electoral promises, despite plunging the state into deep unsustainable debt. We want to serve notice on the governor that the PDP has highly qualified aspirants including Iyiola Omisore with impeccable pedigree to flush him out of office next year.
“Still on credibility, the governor is yet to apologise to the state for lying that he is an engineer. In the records of the Council for Registration of Engineers (COREN), the governor’s name is missing. We challenge him to mention his COREN number. Still on credibility, the governor is yet to apologise to our people for plunging the state into debt trap. Worst still, he takes the people for a ride by hiding the debt level despite pressures.
“The ACN is running the state on deceit and propaganda and details of this are provided. It is on record that three years after, the state government is yet to complete any major projects from roads to the education sector. Citizens of the state are not unaware that the only project so far commissioned by the governor was the Olakoju Park which ordinarily falls under local government responsibility,” the statement read.
“The second project was the Oponimo tablet which is turning out to be a monumental fraud. Up till now, only four schools have got the tablets and we now know it was the son of the governor who handled the project in breach of the constitution. As if to prove us right, even the national leader of the ACN, Senator Bola Tinubu, confirmed the involvement of Kabiru, the governor’s son in the fashioning and implementation of the project. May be the governor is not aware of explicit provisions of the constitution which prohibits using public office to favour one’s family,” the former deputy governor noted.
He further said that; “aside from that, the state is yet to be told the cost of the contract, the company that handled the job, the cost per copy of the tablet and what process led to the award to the said company. We suspect that Senator Tinubu must have been surprised with the level of involvment of Kabiru, hence, his deliberate mentioning of the matter at the launching. The issue of appropriateness of the tablet in schools will soon be tested out and Nigerians will see the result.”
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