"Isiaka Adeleke is the man", Says PDP

The defection of former governor, Isiaka Adeleke, from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress has been described as good riddance to bad rubbish. A statement by the Chairman, Osun PDP, Alhaji Gani Olaoluwa, on Wednesday, said the defection of Adeleke to the ruling APC was the “best thing ever to happen to the opposition party.” Describing Adeleke as a political burden, Olaoluwa said the former governor was living on past glory. Olaoluwa spoke in Ilesa, where he welcomed several members of the APC, who defected to the PDP. A former Speaker, Adejare Bello, who hails from the same town, Ede, with Adeleke, said the defection of the first executive governor of Osun State would have no effect on the PDP at the August 9, 2014 governorship polls in Osun State. Bello, who has emerged as the running mate to Osun PDP governorship candidate, Senator Iyiola Omisore, said the PDP will win the election. Adeleke had said that his control of Ede politics was not in doubt, vowing that the PDP would be trounced in the election. “The best Bello can have is a win in his unit but he will lose in his ward. We know where the love of the people of Ede is,” Adeleke said. But Bello, who said the APC has misgoverned Osun in the last three and a half years, maintained that the PDP represent a change for the better. “Osun has been stagnated since the advent of APC in the corridors of power. The people are hungry and disappointed. They want the PDP back in power. Enough of the trickery by the APC. Osun people are now wiser. They know where their bread is buttered. A chieftain of the PDP, Mrs. Remi Olowu, said good times would be returned to Osun on June 21, 2014 after the PDP emerged victorious.