In a political landscape perpetually in flux, Senator Iyiola Omisore has found himself back in fashion. The former deputy governor, senator, and national secretary of the All Progressives Congress, once painted as a relic of old-school politicking, is now being courted again, whispered about in corridors of power and invoked in the calculus of Osun’s political future.
He has been here before. And then, he vanished. But now, in a moment that feels both familiar and strange, the state’s political orbit is tilting back toward him.
This resurgence didn’t come with fanfare. It crept in. One of his former critics, Kamorudeen Adabanija, a vocal loyalist of Rauf Aregbesola, recently emerged from police custody with a surprising confession: admiration for the man he once called a murderer. Adabanija’s U-turn lit up Osun’s political grapevine, casting Omisore as a man of remarkable restraint and long memory, the type who absorbs insults without returning fire, then rises—clean, composed, still relevant.
