Osun PDP picks Adeleke’s man as Omisore’s running mate

As part of the grand plan to win the August 9 governorship election in Osun State, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has settled for one of the arrowheads of Senator Isiaka Adeleke’s political group and former Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Honourable Adejare Bello, as the running mate to its governorship candidate, Senator Iyiola Omisore. The decision to pick Bello, a lawyer, Nigerian Tribune gathered, was arrived at after a wide consultation and several hours of meeting with the Ede politician, said to possess the clout to whittle down Adeleke’s influence in the town and even rally many people who would have been swerved by Adeleke’s defection to the APC. Bello had declined to follow Adeleke, his political leader of many years, to the APC, a move that appeared to have paid off. A news release issued and signed by the Osun PDP chairman, Alhaji Gani Olaoluwa, noted that “the elders’ caucus of the party, after two days of serious deliberations, brainstorming and very wide consultations, has finally agreed that Adejare Bello should be the running mate to Senator Omisore.” The party expressed absolute confidence and belief in the combination of the duo to win the August 9 gubernatorial election, just as Olaoluwa said the gubernatorial campaign of the PDP would be kicked off on the 9th of June. “The PDP candidates for the post of governor and deputy governor are not imported people, they are well-known to the people of Osun State and the people can rest assure that they will form a pro-people government, a government that will work for the people’s good and happiness and not take their money to Lagos. “Dr Omisore, from Ile-Ife, was a former deputy governor in Osun State, he represented his people in the Senate for two terms and the people can testify to his positive impacts, while Barrister Bello has served as the Minority Leader of the Osun Assembly from 1999-2003 and Speaker from 2003-2012. They are not like the strangers who are now governing the state and causing untold hardship through capital flight and policies that lack human face,” Olaoluwa said.