{"id":1025,"date":"2014-08-30T07:53:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T07:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2014-08-30T07:55:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T07:55:07","slug":"oyinlolas-kinsmen-tackle-omisore-over-sponsorship-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1025","title":{"rendered":"Oyinlola\u2019s kinsmen tackle Omisore over sponsorship claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Senator-Iyiola-Omisore-360x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1026\" alt=\"Senator-Iyiola-Omisore-360x225\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Senator-Iyiola-Omisore-360x225-300x187.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Senator-Iyiola-Omisore-360x225-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Senator-Iyiola-Omisore-360x225-128x80.jpg 128w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Senator-Iyiola-Omisore-360x225.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Members of Okuku Progressive Youths Forum have asked the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate in the last election in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore and his associates to stop claiming credits for the emergence of Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola as state governor in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Oyinlola hails from Okuku in Odo Otin Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Oyinlola, who dumped the PDP for the All Progressives Congress prior to the recent governorship election in the state, was elected governor in May 2003 and re-elected in 2007 until a court of appeal nullified his election on November 26, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>But in a statement issued by the forum\u2019s president, Mr. Olatundun Oyetunde, it said it felt disappointed by recent reports by some loyalists of Omisore claiming that he sponsored and bankrolled Oyinlola\u2019s election in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Oyetunde said, \u201cNothing can be farther from the truth. Prince Oyinlola, while in office, repeatedly publicly announced that his election was funded by himself. No one contradicted him then. It is too late to claim credit now for what Omisore did not do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Okuku Progressive Youths Forum have asked the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate in the last election in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore and his associates to stop claiming credits for the emergence of Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola as state governor in 2003. Oyinlola hails from Okuku in Odo Otin Local Government Area of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Senator-Iyiola-Omisore-360x225.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-gx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}