Gov election: Osun Diaspora group moves for Omisore

The group, speaking through its Chairman, Dr Johnson Olukotun, in a release, said, “several indications have emerged on why the ruling party in the state must be voted out of power immediately.”
“The decision of the group on Omisore, was supported by Osun State indigenes in the UK, mostly scholars, journalists, doctors, community workers, economists, business men and women,” who, he said recently gathered at Nollywood Club House on Camberwell, South East London, for the group’s inauguration.
In his inaugural speech, to support his group's formation and quest for change, Olukotun said "the Civil Rights movement in the United States was formed by educated black elites in defiance of the racist oppressive government in America."

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“Our painstaking struggles for peoples’ democratic rights continue
daily for our collective survival, without which we allow unpopular leaders thrive unchecked.”
Rather, he said the "Diaspora Support Forum UK, declares its support for Senator Iyiola Omisore at the mercy of the state, since the people are dissatisfied with the government and are aching for new government's direction," Olukotun said.
Speaking as a special guest at the group’s inaugural programme in UK, Senator Omisore, was quoted in the release to have said that he disagreed with government’s policy on education, especially, as he said “the merging of schools is confusing and it affects harmonious relationship.”
While he applauded the candidacy of Omisore, Olukotun said in the release that, "the reality in Osun State today casts a blooming shadowy partly that of ignorance and greedy leadership."
He frowned at the government's policies, especially on education, citing the government's "school feeding policy, the controversial opon imo and re-classification of schools among others," which he said were "divisive" and could "set the prominent sons and daughters of the state against one another."
“The governor should know that August 9 is fast approaching and the people of the state will ask how he has been expending taxpayers' money," Olukotun said, urging that the government should "face the task of governing the state."