A release by the Director of Media and Strategy of IOCO, Diran Odeyemi, described Oyinlola as a “confirmed serial betrayer, a politician who had lost whatever little following he had due to his inconsistency, his political summersaults and unreliability in political alliances,” saying that his exit cannot stop the expected landslide victory of PDP on Saturday.
Odeyemi said: “We watched without surprise the defection of Prince Oyinlola and his baseless tirades against the PDP, a party on whose platform he governed Osun State for seven and half years and whose National Secretaryship he attempted to use in service of his new found party.
“We want to put it on records that his defection has no impact on the electoral fortunes of the PDP in Saturday’s election. If any, the exit has cleaned the PDP of the last dark spot which constitutes a moral burden on our shoulder. By defecting, PDP has become fully sanitised and poised for a new lease of life in the government to be formed after the August 9 victory.”
IOCO said that Oyinlola’s political life is characterised by “double dealing, betrayal of allies and instability of political allegiance,” adding that his scorecard is widely known to leaders both locally and nationally.
Odeyemi said that Oyinlola became governor through the Iyiola Omisore Organisation in 2003, but it was on record that he betrayed the organisation.
IOCO alleged that Oyinlola, in his bid to stop Omisore from contesting the 2011 election masterminded the nullification of the 2007 election, with the mindset that a re-run would be ordered for him to recontest and start a fresh four-year tenure, adding: “But the Bourdillon wolves paid the highest price and double crossed the former governor to hijack the mandate.”
Odeyemi also described as “classical form of betrayal” the politics he played leading to his emergence as PDP National Secretary; as Ebenezer Babatope had been endorsed by Osun PDP caucus for the post.
He added that Oyinlola spent his days as National Secretary “actively working against the party at the state level. All nominations submitted from the state in line with traditions were blocked and replaced with that of his cronies who were in league with him on the sell out of the mandate.”
Saying that the politics leading to his exit as a National Secretary was traceable to his double dealings, the Omisore Organisation said that “Omisore will win this election without Prince Oyinlola as Ayo Fayose won the Ekiti election without Segun Oni for several reasons.”
The reasons, according Odeyemi were: the wide acceptance of Omisore despite Oyinlola’s defection over a year ago; attraction of voters’ sympathy and support for Omisore; Oyinlola lacks consummate political machine that can be a factor in Osun guber race; Oyinlola’s defection to APC cannot wash away Rauf Aregbesola’s unpopularity to stop Osun people from voting for change; more importantly, Omisore has secured endorsement of workers, artisans, market women, students and previously unreached voters in the over 300 political wards in the state.
The organisation therefore urged the former governor “to be democratic enough to congratulate Senator Omisore after he must have won the August 9 election.
Source: National Mirror
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