Former Deputy Governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has been declared as the winner of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship primaries in the state.
Senator Omisore defeated a former Minister of Youth Development Akinlabi Olasunkanmi and Oluwole Oke, a former member of House of Representatives to win the party ticket.
Omisore was announced on Saturday as the winner of the primaries by the chairman of the Organising Committee, Adamu Aliero, a former governor of Kebbi State.
Mr. Omisore hails from Ile-Ife in Osun State and represented Osun East, made up of Ife and Illesha, in the Senate from 2003 to 2011 on the PDP ticket.
Before his sojourn go the Senate, he was deputy governor on the platform of the Alliance for Democracy between 1999 and 2002, when Bisi Akande was the state.
In 2002, Mr. Omisore was accused of being responsible for the murder of Bola Ige, then Nigeria?s Attorney General and Justice Minister, who was murdered in his house on December 23, 2001.
Mr. Omisore was detained for almost two years and won his 2003 senatorial election while in prison. He was eventually cleared by the court and freed.
