Former National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Iyiola Omisore, has described their disqualification from the Osun APC primary election as a joke and an embarrassment.
Omisore made this statement on Tuesday during an interview on Arise Television.
The former lawmaker said that there is a limit to what a party can do in candidate disqualification, adding that the Electoral Act says nomination of a candidate is not the prerogative of any party.
The APC Screening Committee had disqualified Omisore and six other aspirants from participating in the December 13 governorship primary over alleged irregularities in their nomination documents.
Those barred from the race with him include Babatunde Oralusi, Oyedotun Babayemi, Dr Akin Ogunbiyi, Benedict Alabi, Adegoke Rasheed Okiki, and Senator Babajide Omoworare.
Reacting, Omisore said, “In Osun State, we lost election in 2022. After the loss, we did a post mortem how we lost election led by the former Minister of Health, Isaac Adewale.
“The report was submitted and pointed at the fact that the then governor Gboyega Oyetola made us to lose election. And the report said that there are three or four of his cabinet members who aided the loss.
“So it became a problem for the state all over. So that is why we now believe that way further, we should do a thorough primaries. Unfortunately, former governor Oyetola is now sponsoring one of those aiders of the election losses.
“So the entire state leadership is against his position, and he started to impose the candidate on the state. And I want to really explain that I don’t want you to drag President Bola Tinubu to this matter.
“The President is a leader of the country. He has done well for everybody. He has fair to all concerned.
“So in a bit of it as a mixture and confusion about it, we want to win election 2026 so we cannot go the same way, the same route we went to lose election in 2022.”
