Osun Poll : Peter Power Defects to SDP, Pledges Support For Omisore

From left, Mr Bade Falade, DG, Omisore Campaign Organisation, Dr Peter Babalola, Senator Iyiola Omisore, his running mate, Mr Yemi Lawal, and SDP chairman, Dr Bayo Faforiji, during a reception for Omisore at the Ikire country home of ‘Peter Power, in Osun State, on Sunday, August 12, 2018. Photo: Seyi Gesinde

DR Peter Babalola, chairman of Osun Local Government Service Commission, under Governor Rauf Aregbesola administration, and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has thrown his weight behind the Osun State governorship ambition of Senator Iyiola Omisore of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).

Welcoming Omisore to his Ikire country home, on Sunday, amid cheers from his crowd of supporters, Babalola, popularly called ‘Peter Power,’ said he was on a rescue mission for Osun, and now ready to support a credible candidate, adding, “of all the governorship candidates in Osun, Omisore is the most qualified.”

In his open remark to his supporters, Babalola, who, as a chieftain of APC and governorship aspirant of the party, hinged his preference for Omisore, an opposition party’s candidate, primarily on his “interest for development of Osun State, saying, Omisore is an experienced politician and qualified to govern the state having served as a former deputy governor and as a senator, who represented the state twice in the Senate.

“Apart from being a former deputy governor in the state, Omisore as a senator chaired the appropriation committee, which I consider as the most important committee in the Senate, so, as we can see, he is an experienced politician, who can be supported for the progress of the state,” Babalola said.

He said he had begun a rescue mission for Osun State with an agenda for the ‘West’ and he had already told his party leadership to make amends, and if it is left undone, he was prepared to call others together to assess all the candidates, and put resources together to support the best of the contestants.