SARAKI VISITS OMISORE AHEAD OF OSUN RERUN ELECTION
-BY JOSEPH OMONIYI
The Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, has visited the Social Democratic Party governorship candidate in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, to plead with him to team up with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the rerun election holding on Thursday.
Some of the polling units where the rerun election will be held include Ife North and Ife South, where Omisore is known to have a strong hold.
Speaking with newsmen after the visit, Saraki said that had no doubt that Senator Ademola Adeleke would win the rerun poll and become the governor of the state.
Dr Doyin Okupe, Senator Abiodun Olujimi and other PDP leaders were in the entourage of the Senate President during the visit to Omisore, who left the PDP following a protracted crisis over his governorship ambition .
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