The campaign office of a gubernatorial aspirant in the 2014 governorship election in Osun State under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Iyiola Omisore, said that if has uncovered what it called "another orchestrated plan by the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, to smear the hard earned reputation" of the governorship aspirant.
In a statement signed by Omisore's Media Adviser, Kolawole Victor Oriola and made available to Saturday Mirror, the campaign office said that the ACN's plan included the use of a long rested magazine and some "some hack writers" who have been commissioned to "cook up spurious stories" billed for publication in Osun State.
The statement added that the intention of the ACN and itscollaborators was to malign Omisore's image with the aim of ridiculing him.
The statement added: "The questions that we want to ask Governor Rauf Aregbesola and his people are: Why are they fixated over the gubernatorial ambition of Senator Omisore?
Why is the governor and his handful of his sympathisers afraid of competing with Senator Omisore, if he actually performed as he want people to believe." But in a reaction, the Osun State chapter of the ACN said that it will not glorify Omisore with an answer.
In a statement by Kunle Oyatomi, the ACN said: "We will not lose focus for illogical and dumb opinion and statement from a desperate nitwit. The PDP as we know today is in disarray as to who exactly will represent it in 2014. And this is because Omisore to the PDP is a burden who it must discharge quickly. "We in the ACN reiterate that there is no vacancy in Abere. And the PDP is indeed a sinking party."
National Mirror