SDP chairman in trouble for disowning Omisore

The Social Democratic Party (SDP) chairman, Osun State, Mr. Ademola Ishola, who recently announced that the state’s former deputy governor and a governorship aspirant of the party, Senator Iyiola Omisore, was not an SDP member has got himself into trouble.

The party on Thursday declared that Ishola has been suspended indefinitely for denying that Omisore is an SDP member, among other misdeeds he was said to have committed.

The suspended chairman had made that claim recently when he spoke with newsmen in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, where he claimed that Omisore was not yet a member of the party in the state, but merely a friend of it.

Ishola’s suspension was announced by a former state secretary of the party, Elder Timothy Agboola, who was flanked by the assistant secretary and seven other members of the executives. They also claimed that Ishola failed to give account of over N6 million accrued to him while in office as chairman.

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The sins purportedly committed by Ishola as contained in the resolutions of the executive committee which Agboola read out to newsmen include misrepresentation of the state executive committee to the public through an unauthorised press statement, and usurpation of the powers of the state executive committee by refusing to call state executive meetings for the past three years.

They also accused him of refusal to implement party resolutions and decisions at the state and national levels on the constitution of the state steering committee, and failure to render an account of party grants and subventions collected for the past 5 years.”

The state SDP meanwhile, has announced Alhaji Ganiyu Babatunde as the acting chairman of the party.

Ishola is yet to react to the development.

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