… As Omisore Pledges Anti-Poverty Programmes
With barely three weeks to the Osun State governorship election, the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday lost one of its top chieftains in the state, Colonel Olayiwola Talabi (rtd), to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Talabi defected alongside hundreds of his supporters.
The defection which took place at Ikire also saw the flagbearer of the PDP in the election, Senator Iyiola Omisore pledging to implement immediate anti-poverty measures if elected governor at the August 9 election.
Announcing his defection, Talabi told the mammoth crowd at the rally that he dumped the APC because of its anti-people policies and the marginalization of local leaders in favor of Lagos based political actors.
Lamenting the failure of Aregbesola’s government to positively touch the lives of the people, Talabi said he could no longer explain to the people the many failures of the government of Aregbesola especially in the area of fulfilling campaign promises he made to citizens of the state.
“I quit because I am fed up with servitude, with failed promises, with anti-people programmes, with bad leadership. I am now convinced that Senator Iyiola Omisore is the right man to take the state out of the present mess and rebuild it from the destruction witnessed under the APC governorship,” Talabi said.
Meanwhile, Senator Omisore has lamented the deepening poverty crisis rocking Osun state, wondering why the people are suffering in the midst of abundance.
Responding to the lamentations of locals during the rally, the governorship candidate was full of empathy for them, attributing the situation to capital flight occasioned by policies of the APC government.
“The penchant of the APC government to service its Lagos cronies has killed the local economy, impoverished the people and stifled their means of livelihood. We will boost local economy, enhance livelihoods of the people and implement anti-poverty programmes”, the governorship candidate said.
He assured those who decamped into the party that what sent them out of APC will not happen in PDP, explaining that a PDP government under his leadership will be people centered and people oriented.
