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  • Police to quiz Omisore over 2014 assault on Adeleke

    Police to quiz Omisore over 2014 assault on Adeleke

    Osun State Police Command has invited  Senator Iyiola Omisore, over an alleged assault reported to the command by the late Senator Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke in 2014.

    In a letter titled “Invitation to Police station” dated October 20, Omisore is expected to meet with Deputy Commissioner of Police (State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence department.)

    The letter signed by Deputy Commissioner of Police, Umege Uzochukwu read: “You are invited to meet with the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department in connection with a case of assault occasioning harm reported by the late Senator Isiaka Adeleke against you.

    Looking forward to seeing you on the 27th day of October, 2017 at about 1200hrs please” But it was learnt that Omisore did not honour the invitation on Friday.

    In a statement yesterday, Omisore said he received “the very curious but interesting invitation”

    He added:  “We all know that as Nigerians we are living in a very interesting time. The culture now is to source for scapegoats in members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for every inaction of government. The tragic instance in which the late former Osun State governor, a distinguished senator of the Federal Republic, died is still fresh in our memories, particularly the controversy that his death generated across the nation.

    “Therefore, I want the public to know about the plot and keep them informed about this sinister plan, which I believe is just unfolding, against myself, some other members of the opposition and even the good memory Osun people cherish about Senator Adeleke.”

  • Ooni, Oyinlola, Omisore to Aregbesola: take heart

    The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, former Osun State Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola and Senator Iyiola Onisore, have commiserated with Governor Rauf Aregbesola over the death of his mother, Alhaja Saratu.

    Oba Ogunwusi, who is away to London, sent his condolences in a statement by his media aide, Moses Olafare. He described the deceased as an epitome of motherhood, worthy of emulation by women desiring to raise successful children.

    The monarch urged the people of the state and Yoruba race, to join the governor and his family in celebrating their matriarch, who “laboured hard to raise her children with discpline, virtues and godliness”.

    The statement reads:  “Mama Olobi, you are such a wonderful mother who will forever be celebrated and emulated by mothers who desire to raise children who will be blessings to the society, like your son, Rauf Aregbesola, who has always conducted himself in an enviable manner; he is indeed an Omoluwabi per excellence.”

    Oyinlola noted the exceptional bond between Aregbesola and his mother, saying his successor should be consoled by the fact that his mother lived well and was loved by all.

    “As mortals, we never want our elderly ones to go. But the Holy Books say all souls must taste death, so we have to submit to the supreme will of the Almighty from whom we came, and unto whom we shall all go,” he said.

    Omisore said the deceased lived a life worthy of emulation. “I hereby commisserate with Governor Rauf Aregbesola on the death of his mother, Alhaja Saratu Aregbesola.” He said the deceased will be missed because her likes “are rare beings in our lives”.

  • Fayose, Omisore want to destroy PDP —Kashamu

    Fayose, Omisore want to destroy PDP —Kashamu

    Senator Buruji Kashamu has alleged that Governor Ayo Fayose and Senator Iyiola Omisore are planning to destroy the Peoples Democratic Party in South-West.

    He said both men were behind the crisis rocking the party in the zone, but said none of them has the capacity to drive him out of the former ruling party.

    The Senator representing Ogun East senatorial district in the Senate stated this in a statement he signed  yesterday.

    He denied any plan to defect to another political party, just like some of those described as his political associates had moved to Mega Party of Nigeria.

    He said: “I wish to state without mincing words that the misleading report linking me with the move was concocted and spread on the social media by one Lere Olayinka who is a well-known attack dog of Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose.

    “While it is true that the 14-month leadership crisis that engulfed our party started as a result of Fayose and ex-Governor Olusegun Mimiko’s attempt to perpetrate impunity and cut short the tenure of elected party executives, I mediated between the two leaders, pointing out their virtues and mistakes as someone who has related with them over time.

    “I proposed a political solution to the leadership crisis. But when all that failed, they went the whole hog of the judicial system.

    “It is also on record that when the Supreme Court gave its judgment, I congratulated the National Chairman, Senator Makarfi, and other members of the National Caretaker Committee (NCC) on the verdict, and urged all aggrieved party members to unite and work with them in the overall interest of our party.

    “Fayose and ex-PDP governorship candidate in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, then got their illegal puppets, Sikirulai Ogundele and Bayo Faforiji, into the NEC meeting until they (including Omisore) were sent out by the National Chairman, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, upon the observation raised by a member of the Board of Trustees, Alhaji Shuaibu Oyedokun.

    “These men never took part in state congresses held before the national leadership crisis broke out in May, 2016, but were handpicked by a member of the House of Representatives from Ogun State, Hon. Oladipupo Adebutu and Omisore, both of whom are nursing governorship ambitions.

    “But as for me, Fayose and Omisore cannot push me out of the PDP. They do not have what it takes. I am not going anywhere.

    “I remain a strong mobiliser for the PDP and one of its leaders in the South West. That is why I cannot close my eyes to impunity and injustice.”

    He said he had commenced discussions with some of the PDP members who, out of annoyance, decided to join another political platform to prove their worth.

    He appealed to the leaders of the party, including the “National Chairman, Senator Ahmed Makarfi and Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, not to allow Fayose and Omisore to spoil their efforts to unite the party and reposition it.”

    Kashamu further said: “I said it when the leadership crisis started that Fayose orchestrated it to pocket the party’s structure in the South West and make it easier for him to realise his ambition. Since he cannot imagine a life out of politics and power, few days after the Supreme Court judgment, he launched his so-called Presidential campaign.”

    In his reaction, Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose  described Prince Kashamu  as a “drowning horse looking for what to hold unto for survival.”

    Fayose, who spoke through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Idowu Adelusi, said Kashamu pushed himself out of the  PDP because of the several anti-party activities allegedly committed against the plaform that brought him to the Senate.

    He said: “It is Buruji (Kashamu) that tried to destroy the PDP; Buruji should be ignored because he is a drowning horse looking for what to hold unto for survival or who to blackmail.

    “Nobody pushed him out the PDP; he pushed himself out because of the evils he perpetrated.

    “For numerous advertorials and press releases he has published in newspapers to disparage Fayose, the governor has not replied him because he  will not join issues with him.

    “It is better to allow his sleeping dog to lie.”

  • COREN appoints Omisore into varsity accreditation team

    COREN appoints Omisore into varsity accreditation team

    THE Council for the Regulation of Engineering profession in Nigeria, COREN has appointed former Osun State deputy governor and two-term Senator, Senator Iyiola Omisore, as a resource person in the accreditation visitation team to the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, Delta State.

    In a letter signed by the Registrar of the Council, W. Kamila Maliki, Dr. Omisore, a COREN certified engineer, is expected to serve as a resource person to the visiting accreditation panel.

    He is required to cover the undergraduate programme of Mechanical Engineering at the institution.

    The team is expected to stay for five days at the university, after which they will turn up their reports.

    Omisore has in the recent past been canvassing for the need for governments at all levels to embrace appropriate models in Public Private Partnerships (PPP) initiative.  In November last year, Omisore was a guest speaker at the Nigerian Society of Engineers Annual Conference and African Engineering Confab in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.

    He presented a paper on the topic: Nigeria’s Infrastructure Deficit: Beyond the Limitation of Finance in Public Private Partnership and Project Procurement Options.

    He was also the guest speaker at the Nigerian Engineering Conference 2017, an event organised by the Nigerian Society of Engineers, Students Chapter of the Obafemi Awolowo University on May 29, 2017.

    He has authored several articles, literatures and presented papers on Engineering, Infrastructural Development and Public Private Partnerships in and outside the country.

     

  • Omisore hosts North America medical team

    Omisore hosts North America medical team

    Health is Wealth, was the declaration of Senator Iyiola Omisore when he played host to a team of medical practitioners of Ife extraction who came from North America

    The doctors, who specialise  in various fields of medical practice were in Osun State to provide free medical services to the indigenes as a form of social responsibility to the communities that made them. In the course of their mission, they paid courtesy visit to the former Deputy Governor and Senator at his Ife home.

    Expressing his appreciation to the doctors, Senator Omisore said, “I’m impressed by what you are doing as you are giving back to the society in your own way as this will go a long way to assist our people who have health challenges but are not financially buoyant to treat their health.”

    “Health is wealth. There is nothing that can be compared with sound health as when you are healthy; you are productive; but the moment one has health challenge, it becomes an issue. Healthy citizens produce a wealthy nation; to aspire for anything in life; you need perfect  health,”  averred Omisore.

    Omisore said during his tenure as Chairman of Senate Committee on Appropriation, he appropriated over four billion naira to Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife to facilitate infrastructural development and building of all medical wards and offices under the phase 4 of the Hospital Development Project. He also revealed that his tenure in the Senate saw to the completion of all the link roads between the University and the Teaching Hospital. “This was part of the reasons I made it a point of duty that every first day of every year; I would always celebrate the New Year with patients at the OAUTH and offset their bills because total health is very important to individual citizens, the state and the nation,” he said.

    Replying, a member of the team, Dr. Olabisi Jagun thanked Dr. Iyiola Omisore for his tremendous medical intervention effort to the citizens of Osun and for other numerous projects personally donated for the infrastructural development of the state. He expressed their happiness at coming back to their home town to give back in the area of health need.

    “In our medical mission to Ife; over 5000 people have immensely benefited from free consultation; drugs and other related issues. This event is going to be yearly as we have collaborated with Obafemi Awolowo University Health Centre”, Dr Jagun revealed.

    Dr. Mide Lawson, the facilitator of the team said, “All of us have one or two things to do with Ife. Some were born here, while others schooled in Ife. We now deemed it fit to come back home and give to the society. On behalf of my colleagues, I want to thank Dr. Iyiola Omisore for hosting us.”

    The doctors who came together from their various bases in different countries in the North American region are operating under the Corporate Social Responsibility identity known as Ife Ooye Medical Team of North America (IOMTNA). The free medical service is their own way of giving back to their communities in Osun State in order to ensure good health to their kinsmen.

  • ‘Omisore has no understanding of governance’

    ‘Omisore has no understanding of governance’

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has described the purported transfer of power from Governor Rauf Aregbesola to Senator Iyiola Omisare as “an eclipse of the sun”.
    This followed Omisore’s statement that he was in the 2018 governorship race to “free the state from bad governance”.
    In a statement yesterday, the party said: “Omisore has no practical experience in governance worthy of respect to give the people.
    “He was disgraced from office, impeached within two years when he was deputy governor.
    “Omisore’s pedigree of disloyalty and inordinate ambition has lived with him since then till now, and nothing significant has changed in his political mold.
    “Omisore ‘s participation in the last governorship election is obscene and characterised by violence.
    ‘To worsen matters, he has no restraint in lying against his opponents, about events and his political worth.
    ‘It is the reason the PDP chieftain can neither understand the dynamics of governance nor the tragic consequences of the economic downturn in Nigeria and how it has impacted Osun.
    ‘This is why we will not waste time and energy responding to the details of his wishy washy criticisms of the APC government.”

  • Omisore’s ambition delusional, says Osun APC

    Omisore’s ambition delusional, says Osun APC

    The  All Progressives Congress (APC) has advised the people of Osun to disregard the latest ranting of Senator Iyiola Omisore on the politics of Osun and the performance of Governor Rauf Aregbesola.

    Omisore’s interviews published at the weekendclaimed he won the 2014 governorship election.

    Omisore, in the interviews, “produced evidence” on You Tube to show how the election was “manipulated” to favour Aregbesola.

    In a statement by its Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, Kunle Oyatomi, the party described Omisore’s claim as “irresponsible, false and unbecoming of a politician of his status and experience”.

    The APC said it could appear that Omisore’s dream of becoming a governor had turned delusional.

    According to the party,  Omisore’s political career since 1999 till date has been fraught with disgraceful failure and comprehensive defeat in the hands of younger politicians like Senator Babatunde Omoworare and Aregbesola.

    The statement reads: “A politician of Omisore’s political pedigree of disloyalty, falsehood and incredible political association with violence cannot be trusted to provide the state of Osun with progressive leadership.

    “No matter how much he dreams or how craftily he put a new spin to an old lie, Omisore remains quintessentially a bad material for the governorship of the state of Osun,” the APC said.

    The party insisted that Omisore cannot claim that 2014 election was manipulated because everybody saw the violence which the PDP government in Abuja brought to Osun to intimidate residents to vote PDP.

    “Omisore is not in a position to understand how all the lies he produced at the tribunal, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court failed to impress the judges.

    “Osun people have become immune to the lies of PDP. And that has completely destroyed Omisore’s credibility in the state.”

  • Omisore’s rumoured goodbye to governorship ambition

    Few names are as big as that of Iyiola Omisore in the politics of Osun State. He has been deputy governor and senator. He has long nursed the ambition to become the governor of the state. But like the biblical Moses, it now looks like he will have to content himself only with a glimpse of the promised land.

    If whispers are to be believed, Senator Omisore may call it quits next year with his ambition to become Osun State governor. Omisore, no doubt, is a formidable force in the politics of Osun State and the entire South West region; he has built an armada of political connections which would have been enough to land him the governorship seat but for intra-party fighting in the PDP.

    Ahead of the next governorship election in the state, expectations were that Omisore would once again throw his hat in the ring. However, his observable lack of interest has caused others with governorship ambition in the state to start flocking around him in the hope that he would endorse their candidacy like Moses did Joshua.

  • Omisore pays patients’ bills at OAUTH, visits orphanage homes

    Omisore pays patients’ bills at OAUTH, visits orphanage homes

    Former Osun State Deputy Governor Senator Iyiola Omisore has visited  some patients of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTH), IIe- Ife, and children and care givers at the Covenant Orphanage and Welfare Centre in Moro, Osun State, where he paid their bills and gave them gifts.

    At the OAUTH, he was received by the top management staff of the hospital led by the Chief Medical Director, Prof Victor Adetiloye.

    Others at the event were the Director of Administration, Mrs Bola Alejo; Professor of Plastic Surgery,  Kayode Olabanji; Director of Finance Alhaji M. S. Olaobaju; Head of Nursing, Mr. J. B. Oni; the hospital Public Relations, Miss Oluwakemi Fasoto;  Head of Servicom, Mr Tajudeen Balogun, and Dr. J.Olusanyan

    Adetiloye thanked Senator Omisore for choosing to spend his first day, yearly, with patients of OAUTH and at orphanage homes.

    He listed several intervention projects that Omisore has executed at the hospital. They include provision of water, roads, and new wards.

    “Today as usual, Senator Omisore has brought salvation to many of our patients. As we stand here today, all the structures standing at the Phase Four of our expansion programme were all facilitated by our noble Senator.Through his support and other corporate organisations, we have developed the hospital to an international standard. Our quality of service is equal to none in West Africa. We receive patients from across Nigeria. We have experts in all fields of medical practice; and we perform rare feats because we operate at a global standard. Despite that, our services remain the cheapest; we charge at an affordable level, but even at that, many patients cannot still afford to pay.

    “Though it is a Federal Government institution, government cannot do it alone. It is from the little we charge that we cover our administrative expenses. If not for such support we receive from people like Senator Omisore, we might not have been able to develop our services to this enviable level. Here, we have been able to perform open heart surgery on 14 patients. We are known worldwide for renal transplantation; our doctors are renowned all over the world,’’ Adetiloye said

    Commending Omisore, he said: “For coming every year to bring relief to our poor patients, you have heeded a call from God to help the needy. We want to appeal to other leaders in our society to emulate such a noble gesture of Senator Omisore at giving back and creating values to their communities.’’

    Adetiloye led Senator Omisore and his entourage on tour of every ward in the hospital where the  former deputy governor met, prayed, inspired the patients and handed each a pack of gifts.

    He rounded off the visit at the detaining patients section where poor patients that have been discharged for as long as eight months,  but were being detained beacuse of their inability to pay their huge  bills.

    Senator Omisore sat with the  patients, inquired from them about their problem. He immediately paid their outstanding bills to the admiration of everybody. This gesture brought tears of joy to the detained patients, some of whom came from other regions of the country.

    Omisore and his convoy later drove to the Covenant Orphanage and Welfare Centre in Moro,  another community in the state.

    He was received with appreciative songs by the inmates and care givers at the home. Omisore sang, danced, prayed for them and presented packs of food items, which included bags of 50kgs rice, indomie noodles, gallons of oil, bags of beans, cartons of tooth paste, beverages and various soft drinks.

    He appealed to Nigerians to be their brothers’ keeper. “You don’t have to be rich to help others in need. A little assistance will go a long way in the life of a needy. At the hospital, both the in-patients and the detained patients always wait for me to come and bail them out on January 1st of every year; and I am always happy to bring that relief to them. I pray for God’s grace to continue,” Senator Omisore added.

  • Fayose, Omisore got N3.8b arms cash, says Obanikoro

    Fayose, Omisore got N3.8b arms cash, says Obanikoro

    DETAINED former Minister of State (Defence) Musiliu Obanikoro yesterday made more revelations on how the N4.745billion wired to a company linked to him by the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) was shared.

    The money comprised N4.685billon transferred to Sylva McNamara Limited and N60million ($5.77m) cash personally given to Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose by the ex-Minister.

    Fayose issued a statement yesterday, saying Obanikoro’s return from overseas was planned to nail him. He did not deny receiving money from the former minister.

    Obanikoro told Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) detectives that N3.880billion was allocated to Fayose and Sen. Iyiola Omisore out of the cash.

    He also said he handed over $5.377m cash to Fayose at Spotless Hotel, Ado-Ekiti in the presence of the former Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Dr. Tope Aluko, and other party stalwarts.

    He reportedly demonstrated how Fayose collected the cash and put it “in the room next to where we were seated”.

    The ex-minister, who made the disclosures during another round of grilling, said there were heaps of bank transfers to buttress his statement.

    He said: “Out of N4.685billon transferred to Sylva McNamara Limited, N3.880billion was transferred to both Ayodele Fayose and Senator Omisore through cash and bank transfers.

    “The dollars contents were handed over to Fayose personally by me in the presence of some party leaders and he collected it and took it to the room next to where we were all seated.

    “The location where I gave the dollars to him is called Spotless Hotel, Ado-Ekiti. One of the party leaders that was present is Dr. Tope Aluko, who was then the secretary of our party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

    “I transferred N1.7 billion to Omisore. The money was paid into his account and companies nominated by him. He gave the list of companies for the transfer of the N1.7billion that was released by the NSA to him.

    “The funds were therefore transferred as prescribed by Omisore in full. That is to the account of the companies he provided. Details can be obtained from the bank that transferred the money.

    “I, Musiliu Obanikoro, did not buy or sell any landed property from Sen. Omisore. The National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd) did not disclose to me what the funds were meant for and neither did I ask or I did not know the source of the funds.”

    The former Minister however claimed that the balance of N785milion was used to wage war against Boko Haram in Lagos.

    He added: “The balance of N785milion was used to prosecute the following: 1. procurement of souvenirs for the promotion of anti-Boko Haram insurgency in Lagos; 2. N200million for surveillance activities; 3. N200million and other remaining funds were for operations managed by Taiwo Kareem.

    “Taiwo Kareem impressed the former NSA with his management of pre and post-election funds. To God be the glory, the two elections were carried out without any loss of life

    “When bomb blast occurred in Lagos on the 25th of June 2014, the NSA was disturbed and told me of his commitment to ensure that such doesn’t reoccur.

    “He expressed the grave consequence that the reoccurrence will have not only on Lagos but the economy of the entire country. He emphasized the need for local input to complement the activities of security agencies. This is how Sylvan McNamara was introduced.”

    The EFCC obtained yesterday a court warrant to detain Obanikoro.

    The anti-graft agency has also seized his passport to restrict his movement to the country.

    A source said: “We have a valid warrant from the court to detain the ex-minister pending the conclusion of his interrogation by our team. He has a lot to tell us and we are keeping him in safe custody with comfort to enable him respond to the issues we have isolated for him.

    “We have also seized his passport to restrict his movement to the country pending the conclusion of the ongoing probe.”

    Aluko is believed to have made a statement to the EFCC.

    Aluko had last year claimed that Obanikoro and Fayose clashed when the money ferried to Akure Airport was short of N80million.

    He said: “The Presidency gave us security and money; the money was sent from a Diamond Bank branch through an account run by Sylvan MacNamara, a company owned by Obanikoro.

    “My boss (Fayose) said he wanted to get his own in cash and that was why such a huge amount was ferried by plane. Obanikoro cannot claim not to have brought the money.

    “He (Fayose) chose his man, Abiodun Agbele, to keep the money in a bank account. The transaction was not recorded and it got to a stage when it was discovered that the money was short by N80 million.

    “This caused a crisis between Fayose and Obanikoro, who brought the money. He (Obanikoro) brought other things, apart from money, which I won’t disclose now..

     ”The cash carried in the plane was not entered into the manifest. It was delivered to a bank at 4.30 am in Ekiti. The remaining from the cash received for the election was used to buy a house in Abuja and the house belongs to Fayose.”