Osun Poll: PDP accuses Aregbesola, APC of allegedly exploring courts for criminal cases against Omisore

With less than five months to the conduct of August 9, 2014 governorship election in OsunState, the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Sunday ,allegedly accused Governor Rauf Aregbesola and his party, the All progressives Congress (APC) ,of searching through courts, with a view to linking its flag bearer, Senator Iyiola Omisore ,with any criminal offence, be it as a principal or assesory.
The party alleged that the latest plot was a fallout of APC and Aregbesola’s failure in the court of justice and the court of public opinion to successfully implicate Omisore in the killing of the former Minister for Power,  Chief Bola Ige, who was murdered at his Ibadan residence on  December 23, 2001.
In a press statement forwarded by the Osun PDP’s Publicity Secretary, Prince Bola Ajao ,to newsmen in Osogbo,  on Sunday, the party claimed that “as revealed through the grapevine, part of their desperate effort to stop the PDP’s  candidate from contesting the forthcoming election in Osun State is Aregbesola’s commissioned agents to search through the courts with a view to linking Omisore with any criminal offence, be it as a principal or an accessory”.

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According to the statement, “this satanic plot is premised under the ’the principle
of participis criminis’. We sympathise with Aregbesola and his cohorts for having become a lame-duck government and now  resort to this shadow chasing. Let it be noted that the more you fire gold, the purer it becomes.The more thorns you seem to be putting on the way of our candidate, the more appreciated he becomes and the more sympathy he gets from the people”.
But, in a swift reaction, the APC’s Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, Mr Kunle Oyatomi, said the PDP and its candidate for the August 9 governorship election, Omisore, were planning to import miscreants and thugs to Osun State to stage unwarranted protests in order to create mayhem and disturb the reigning peace.
He affirmed that “these senseless and unwarranted protests are intended to manipulate the populace, the electorate and the electoral system in their favour. Plans are said to have been concluded by both Omisore and the PDP to create a virtual state of confusion before August 9 ,believing that if the plan works, it would facilitate an easier manipulation of the electoral process and their rigging exercise”.
Describing the development as a “sinister conspiracy against law and order in Osun, which has been known and confirmed by responsible individuals and foreign diplomats in the country as a safe and peaceful place to do business and attract investments,” Oyatomi urged “the law enforcement agencies in the zone and in the state to ensure that this evil plan does not succeed in the interest of democracy, law and order and peace”.
But the PDP contended that the APC’s  plots would amount to nothing in the resolves of the masses to vote out Aregbesola’s government in August 9, declaring that “for the avoidance of doubt, we would like to state unequivocally that our candidate, Omisore, has no skeleton in his cupboard.