PRESS STATEMENT. (NOVEMBER 3RD, 2023
It was gathered that some prominent chieftains of the APC in Osun State have been slated for organized attacks by the PDP hit squad any moment from now.
Conscious of the concerted plans by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to muzzle the voices of the major opposition party in Osun State, the All Progressives Congress (APC), through organized thuggery attacks, the leadership of the APC chapter in the state has tasked the Inspector-General of Police, the Director- General of State Security Service (DSS) and other statutory security agencies to beef up security in the state.
Information has it that some stakeholders of the Osun PDP who are not comfortable with the way the APC kept exposing daily, the government’s maladministration in the state, had secretly resolved at a meeting in Ede two days ago to engage in the use of extra-judicial means to silence the opposition in Osun.
Photo: Governor Adeleke and Ezekiel Oba
It was reliably gathered that, of particular concern to the violence-promoters PDP chieftains was the rapidity of the official criticism of the Adeleke administration by the leadership of the APC in the state.
Further information revealed that it was agreed at the meeting that it was an insult for the state APC to have the temerity and audacity to be criticizing the administration of Governor Adeleke.
Another school of thought at the meeting was said to have stood their ground that it was a high time that the Adeleke administration showed to the opposition that the ‘PDP administration is not only in charge but it was in absolute control of the affairs of the state.’
It was gathered that it was at this point that the option of running out the principal opposition chieftains of the APC out of the state by some PDP hoodlums through incessant attacks was agreed upon at the Ede meeting.
To this effect, a PDP hit squad headed by one dangerous member of ‘Aye fraternity,’ Ezekiel Oba, who hails from Kwara State and was appointed Special Adviser (SA) to Governor Adeleke on Internal Security in controversial circumstances few months ago was tasked to deal frontally with the opposition.
It was gathered that some prominent chieftains of the APC in Osun State have been slated for organized attacks by the PDP hit squad any moment from now.
According to a privileged information, the state chairman of the party, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal; the state Secretary of the party, Alhaji Alao Olabisi Kamoru; the state Treasurer, Hon Kunle Kujembola; the party’s Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi; a prolific critic of the PDP in the state, Mr Akin Adeyi and a host of other APC chieftains have been marked down for an attack in order to create fears within the opposition and weaken their consolidated base.
In his remark on the development, the state chairman of the Osun State APC, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, enjoined the leaderships of the statutory security agencies in the state not to handle the situation with levity as the state PDP-run government is capable of doing anything to the opposition in the name of politics.
Lawal recalled that it was necessary for the security agencies to give the development an urgent professional attention as that was how no fewer than 30 innocent members of the APC were gruesomely killed by the state PDP hoodlums in order to rig the series of the elections that took place in the state last year and early this year.
In the words of the party’s chairman: “We shall keep tab on the activities of the ruling PDP-led government in the state while any untoward happening to any of our members shall be traced to the PDP goons and their sponsors.
“I wonder what could be the problems of the PDP handlers in the state that they are feeling uncomfortable towards the activities of the opposition as if opposition is not an essential ingredient of a democratic constitutional government?
“The ruling PDP-led government should allow the APC to be as there is no record of the victimization of the PDP members when they were in the opposition in the state.
“If Governor Adeleke and his handlers do not have an ulterior motive, they should, without further delay, tell the whole world what informed the choice of the appointment of a daredevil and notorious thug with a history of fatal dealings with humanity who hails from Kwara State as SA on Internal Security?
“It is important for our members irrespective of their status in the party to be security conscious and promptly report any strange and suspected security threat to their persons or property to the police.
“We would not as a party open our eyes and watch by while our members are being unjustifiably crucified, vilified and attacked by the PDP hired thugs without giving the development the legal attention it deserves”, Lawal warned.
e-SIGNED:
Sooko TAJUDEEN LAWAL, Chairman, Osun State APC.