OSUN: Intrigues as police quiz Omisore for alleged assault on late Sen Adeleke 3yrs after

Former Deputy Governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has been invited by the police to explain why he allegedly attacked late Senator Isiaka Adeleke during the build-up to the governorship primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2014.

The said incident happened while the late senator and Omisore were in the race for the governorship candidate of the PDP ahead of the 2014 governorship election in Osun State.

Adeleke had claimed that Omisore, alongside a former Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan and one Sogo Agboola beat him up at a hotel where he said he had gone to meet officials of the PDP who were to conduct the governorship primary of the party.

The late senator eventually defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) with his supporters and helped Governor Rauf Aregbesola to emerge winner of the state governorship election of that year.

Subsequently, he contested Osun West Senatorial election under APC and won.

However, after three years of that incident and about seven months since the death of the complainant who died in April 2017, Nigerian police last week, in an invitation to Omisore demanded that he makes himself available at the Police Headquarters in Osogbo, Osun State capital on issues regarding alleged case of assault he and others carried out against the late senator.

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The letter from the police which was signed by the deputy commissioner of Police State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Umega 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 Late Senator Isiaka Adeleke against you.”

Omisore, who was PDP candidate and came second in the last election in the state that returned incumbent governor Aregbesola, is among the favorites to emerge governor in the state come 2018 election.

This has given rise to the suspicion that his invitation by the police might be part of the schemes by his political opponents in the state to whittle his influence.

 

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