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The Coalition of Oodua Self-Determination Group (COSEG) has accused Iyiola Omisore, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the August 2014 election in Osun, of plotting to destabilise the state.

In a statement made available to reporters in Lagos, COSEG described as ironic, the fact that Omisore, whose party mismanaged the country for 16 years of, was the one “championing protests against Rauf Aregbesola, governor of the state”.

Ifedayo Ogunlana, president of COSEG, and Rasak Olokooba, the secretary,advised Omisore to desist from “setting the state on fire or watch out for the long arm of the law”.

“We, as a Yoruba organisation, cannot watch as some people who have been part of the systematic decimation of our race and economic woes of Nigeria again openly thwart the efforts to rebuild this country,” they said.

“What is happening in Osun is clear case of treason and the earlier the whole world sees this, the better. The governor of Osun was elected by the same people who rejected Omisore. What he failed to get through the ballot, through the tribunal, the appeal and the supreme court, he cannot think of having it through these illegitimate and criminal avenues. Enough is enough.”

COSEG said it had it on good authority that Omisore and a judge in the state were conniving to instigate mayhem in Osun.

“It is now clear that the whole salary issue has been seen as means the Aregbesola opponents think they can use to bring his government down. The entire allegations by the judge is a grand design and it is all a repeat of the same baseless accusations that the PDP had bandied around since the Omisore’s misadventure to contest the election.

“It is instructive that just as Justice Faolahanmi Oloyede submitted her petition, the PDP had been very active to give bite to the petition. We are all not deceived by the grand design to destabilise the administration.

“We call on Osun people to continuously stand by their governor who Omisore could not change during last election process of the law but trying hard to use instigated violence to achieve.”