By Tunde Olamilekan
A gubernatorial aspirant under the All Progressives Congress in Osun State, Babatunde Oralusi, has claimed that the document which disqualified him and six others from contesting the primaries of the party was forged.
It would be recalled that the screening committee in a report on Friday, barred Oralusi, former national secretary of the APC, Iyiola Omisore, immediate past deputy governor of Osun, Benedict Alabi, Osogbo-born lawyer, Kunle Adegoke SAN, former Senator, Babajide Omoworare, Prince Dotun Babayemi and Dr Akin Ogunbiyi from contesting.
The committee said the disqualified aspirants failed to meet some requirements.
However, the screening committee cleared a former member of the Osun State House of Assembly, Dr Mulikat Jimoh and the immediate past Managing Director of the National Inland Waterways Authority, Bola Oyebamiji.
But Oralusi while appearing on Arise TV programme on Saturday, claimed that the document that came out was forged.
He also accused Dr Jimoh of being a stooge for Oyebamiji’s camp, noting that she would step down at the last minute for the former Commissioner for Finance to emerge as the candidate of the APC in the December 13 primary elections.
He said, “The report barring me from contesting the gubernatorial primary of our party was forged 100 per cent. I can say that categorically and I have evidence. The document that came out was not what the screening committee submitted. At the right time, it will be put forward.
“We, the aspirants, have a forum, and we met for almost three months and had consultations with the leaders; there was nobody called Mulikat during this period.
“Everybody knew about Mulikat a day before we bought the form. This Mulikat is a stooge of some group, and the game is very simple; two people are cleared, one person will withdraw on the last day, and the other person will emerge. Mulikat and the other aspirant are from the same camp.”
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