Osun Gubernatorial Election! Omisore, Labour Party Aspirant Shun Debate

Osun State Gubernatorial candidates, PDP’s Omisore and labour Party aspirant refused to honour a debate organised by an International Republican Institute yesterday in the State. The debate was billed to be broadcasted live on Osun State Broadcasting Corporation Osogbo, but Omisore and the other aspirant shunned it. The sitting governor, Rauf Aregbesola who was said to have gone to Mecca for the lesser hajj but cut short his trip and returned to honour the debate, and was the only candidate seated. So the debate turned out to be a form of interview. But trust APC to release a statement regarding this (find it after the cut in parts). Hmm, if this had happened in a more civilized country, we already know who the winner is, lol. “The PDP’s gubernatorial candidate in the August 9 election in Osun, Iyiola Omisore, squandered a golden opportunity to confront the incumbent governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, in a public radio debate when he ran away from participating. “Osun citizens had waited with bated breath to hear Omisore articulate his accusations against the governor on such issues as the debt profile of the state, the school reform programme and the vexed issue of capital flight. “But it turned out to be almost an interview and not a debate because Omisore ran away. “However, Aregbesola advanced his arguments virtually without challenge that the best thing to have happened in Osun since it was created are his programmes which the PDP wants to destroy.” The media aide of the LP candidate, Mr. Kayode Oladeji, when contacted said that his principal did not shun the debate because he sent his running mate to represent him, when he had a very urgent and equally important assignment he had to attend to. His running mate was however not allowed to represent him, as no representative was welcomed.