Real reason Omisore is battlling Rotimi Makinde

Ahead of Osun 2014 governorship election, its taking new twist as the verbal attacks between former Osun State deputy governor and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant, Senator Iyiola Omisore and member of the House of Representatives, representing Ife Federal Constituency, Hon. Rotimi Makinde continues  to deepens.In a seperate statesments made available to newsmen  yesterday in Lagos, Omisore called for prayers and drug test for Makinde. But in his swift response, Makinde challenged Omisore to an open debate and certificates test. Omisore in a statement by his media aide, Kolawole Victor Oriola, noted that if the call by the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido, that drug test should be conducted for politicians before they are presented for election, has been carried out, Makinde would not have been in the hallowed chamber today. His words: " I know if we have followed this step, characters like Makinde and his ilk's will not be in our hallowed chamber today.  Tell me, what is his relevance at the National Assembly other than fomenting trouble and throwing chairs at perceived and imaginary enemy? If he (Makinde) is conversant with the working of National Assembly, he would have known the implication of printing someone else insignia as billboards in order to depict him as harbinger of thuggery. It is not only libelous, it is capable of causing a breach of public peace and Senator Iyiola Omisore has demonstrated a high sense of responsibility by reporting the ugly incident to the appropriate authorities for necessary action. "He is hallucinating otherwise; he won't be calling a governor whose academic records are shrouded in secrecy a colossus. Colossus my foot! Does Makinde understand the meaning of colossus at all? What is the antecedent of Rotimi Makinde? I don't want to join issue with him because what do you expect from such an infantile mind." Omisore stressed that sending character like Makinde to House of Representatives is scandalous. "Tell me how many popular bill has he sponsored or co-sponsored since he was elected? Unfortunately, he is one of the rascals that were expert in pepper soup joint gossips before his election."   Makinde, an staunch supporter of Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State urged Omisore's media aide to challenge his boss to an open debate and certificates test. "His boss now claimed to be a doctorate degree holder, not from any Nigerian University, but from an unknown institution abroad. "Let him count 20 members of his community he empowered in his 12 years in government while I promised to list 200 in less than 2 years including his brother and sisters of the same surname. The records are there in black and white of my participation at this 7th Assembly. "It is a known fact that I hold a Masters Degree in Finance from Ladoke Akintola University,HND in Accountancy from Kwara State Polytechnic and OND in the same field from The Polytechnic, Birnin-Kebbi. I voluntarily retired from the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), after putting in 20-years of active service. The records are there," Makinde said. The federal lawmaker stressed further that: "Omisore in the first place, has no business being in government and his media aide should know that his boss is a liability to the good people of Ile-Ife and even to his party. He should bravely retire from politics or submit himself for re-branding. "This is man that could not run a micro-finance bank in his domain well enough but choose to relocate to Ghana to start business, without any recourse to the alarming jobless situation in his domain and by extension, Nigeria."