OMISORE’S LOYALIST LEAD THOUSANDS OF PDP SUPPORTERS TO JOIN APC

Thousands of supporters of the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, led by a former Chairman of Ife South Local Government Area, Hon. Diran Ayanbekun, on Tuesday decamped to the All Progressives Congress at a colourful programme in Ifetedo.

This was just as the Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, said his second coming to office will mark the end of lack of basic infrastructure in the state.

Aregbesola assured the people that his administration will build more roads and other social amenities in Ife-South Local Government Area.

In his words: “We thank you for your support always and we thank God that we have not disappointed you.

“We have been to the palace and we have noted all what the Kabiyesi said.

“Our second term can only be better because by the time we would have finished our second term in office, Osun will not lack any social amenity and it will be a place of pride among the committee of states in Nigeria.”

There are 42 major settlements and hundreds of hamlets in Ife South Local Government Area.

Created out of the old Oranyiyan Local Government Area, the council is delineated into 11 wards.

Ayanbekun, a former Chairman of Osun State House of Assembly Committee on Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters, noted that he and his supporters decided to join the APC because of the giant strides of Aregbesola in the state.

He held that having studied goings on in the state and love for the development of the state, he decided to join the APC as the opposition candidate and his former party have nothing superior to offer the state.

Earlier, the Olubosin of Ifetedoland, Oba Ilori Olowosoke, who spoke through the National President of Ifetedo Progressive Union, Prince Bisi Adeshingbin‎, commended the governor for the infrastructural development in the area.

Adeshingbin added that the area needed more representation of Ifetedoland children in the cabinet during the second term of the governor.

He charged the governor not to relent in his oars and that his second coming to office must be better than that of the first term, saying the people of the area are behind the governor for the good work to continue.

He said: “We are happy with what you are doing in our area and the state at large.

“We pray that you will not relent in the good work you have started when you come to office.

“We will continue to pray for you because what you are doing is visible, but like Oliver twist, we will like you to do more for Ifetedo people to be part of your cabinet.”