Sequel to his defeat at the August 9, 2014
governorship election in the State of
Osun, the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) gubernatorial candidate in the
election, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has
reportedly turned his anger on the party
mobilisers across the 30 local
government council areas of the state.
According to an impeccable source
within the party, the party flag-bearer
was more than disappointed over the
outcome of the gubernatorial election in
which he was flatly beaten by the
incumbent governor of the state and the
All Progressives Congress (APC)
candidate, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola.
The source further revealed that days
before the election, Omisore had boasted
to whoever cared to listen that the
election was just a mere formality as he
had been assured by the powers that be
in Abuja that irrespective of the outcome
of the election, he would be announced
as the winner.
However, not taken chances with the
Abuja assurance, the PDP candidate was
reported to have raised a group of
mobilisers from among his loyalists
within the party and saddled them with
the responsibility of persuading the
electorate on queue on the election day
with monetary gifts.
To make their jobs easier, the source
revealed that large chunk of money was
made available to the mobilisers with
instruction to disburse the cash at the
rate of N10,000 per voter depending on
how strong the ruling-APC was in such
area.
The mobilisers, according to the
medium’s findings, also played smart
while disbursing the money on election
day, as the highest amount given to any
voter that received the cash was between
N2,000 and N2,500.
There was however the case of a
particular polling unit in Osogbo, the
state capital, where the PDP mobiliser
was observed to have given money to
347 would-be voters on the queue, while
at the end of the exercise, the PDP
candidate scored only 55 votes.
Angered by his dismal outing at the poll,
Omisore was further reported to have
sent out his men to go after the
mobilisers and retrieve his money from
them, since by his own calculation, the
votes he got did not commensurate with
the number of votes he scored at the end
of the exercise.
One of the mobilisers, who is currently
on the run, confided in OSUN DEFENDER
that he had to run away from those
Omisore sent with members of his
immediate family, as he could not
actually account for the money given to
him to mobilise votes for his principal.
According to him, he actually distributed
cash to some of the would-be voters on
queue as instructed by their principal
but was surprised to see that the number
of votes recorded by his party candidate
did not commensurate with cash he
disbursed at the polling unit.
All efforts to speak with Omisore’s
spokesman, Diran Odeyemi, to comment
on the development proved abortive as
all his known telephone lines could not
go through. It was also gathered that
some of the mobilisers did not distribute
part of the money meant for the
mobilisers, banking on the assurance by
the Federal Government that the Osun
election was a done-deal for the PDP.
Some of the affected mobilisers were
overheard at Adepele Guest House,
Osogbo, few days ago, complaining
regretting about their involvement in the
development, vowing that they would
never be part of such an arrangement in
their lives again.
“This is about the first time that a
candidate will demand for refund of
election money after such election has
been held. It is unheard of in my so
many decades’ involvement in active
partisan politics. If God should see me
through this challenge this time around, I
will never be involved again. My
children should not hear about the
development. It is nauseating. I am not
growing younger”, one of the affected
canvassers lamented.
The elderly canvasser advised the other
younger canvassers to go and return the
Omisore money as he would not have
anything to do with the situation when it
gets out of hand. Investigation showed
that Omisore has issued an ultimatum to
the canvassers who might still be holding
on to his money where he lost the
election to pay up or be ready to see the
red part of his eyes. www.osundefender.org/?p=182536

its unfortunate for omisore this time he is now recording great loss Oga ooooooooooo

after billion of naira they should spend on d poor and d less privilege they are now recording great loss OMA seooooo

after billion of naira they should spend on d poor and d less privilege they are now recording great loss OMA seooooo.even with this loss they will also loose too in 2015 Cos' their hands are not clean.

lol pls come and share money too in lagos oh. Instead of maintaining good and sincere governance they think we are so gullible that they can simply buy our votes. Me ill collect and vote whoever I choose. Omisore should go and hang himself that leaves us with less one useless politician.

even if they use d method of millitarising and policing all d state in 2015 to rig and molest masses they will loose Cos' people are not putting fear into their minds again things av change drastically in politics in democracy.

the beautiful part of it is that people are ready to defend their allow their votes to count we d you nth are tired of rigging in this country we are tired of molesting people before and after d election ,we are tired of rice,money and kerosene infrastructure.

hahahahahahahahaha.
Omisore.Go and die!!

This is how GEJ will go after his canvassers after 2015 election for the refund of funds spent during election. Hahahahahahahhahaahha. Criminals who thinks they can persuade voters wit money. 2015 election slogan will be "take the money and vote them out come 2015"

I think omisore is getting it all wrong. It is very possible for the voters to collect his money and still vote for apc afterall nobody will follow them to see which party they will vote for. So for the fact that the money he gave does not equal the vote he got doesn't mean the mobilisers didn't give out money even though they will also cut their share too

Why will I beleive any news from osun defenders news paper and crown FM in ile ife when I know they both belongs to Aregbesola and omisore respectively...bunch of liars

Eating with a normal person and the devil demands a different posture, to eat with the devil u need a very loooong spoon. But why did Orga and her agent not see d PDP men sharing money at the poll that it was the APC men that were arrested before the election on the allegations that they were suspected to be carrying money to share?