Osun: APC raises alarm over planned attack during Tinubu/Shettima rally
By Ismail Azeez, Osogbo
The All Progressives Congress, (APC) Osun State chapter has raised the alarm over planned attack on the members of the party during the Tinubu/Shettima
Presidential rally slated for Thursday.
The Acting Chairman of the party, Tajudeen Lawal, alleged that the People Democratic Party, (PDP) in coniviance with Governor Ademola Adeleke have concluded plans to unleash attacks on the presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the party supporters.
Lawal further explained that the party gathered from the reliable source that PDP had allegedly commissioned some thugs that would be throwing stones at the convoy of Tinubu/Shettima and all other APC dignitaries at Owode-Ede while on their was to the capital city of Osogbo on Thursday.
The party Chairman who was represented by the Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Kola Olabisi stated this at a press conference addressed at the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign office, Osogbo, Osun state capital on Tuesday.
He charged the members of the party and their numerous supporters to troop out enmass to participants in the mega rally billed to hold on Thursday, just as he urged them to maintain decorum even when confronted with avoidable provocation from those he described as agents of disruptions.
Lawal called on the security agencies in the state not to take the issue of security with levity hands before, during and after Thursday’s President rally.
According to him, “We are privy to an intelligence that the Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in connivance with the embattled state Governor Ademola Adeleke have concluded a plan to disrupt the All Progressives Congress (APC) rally of our presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, coming up on Thursday, February 2, 2023 at the Osogbo Township Stadium, Osogbo, Osun State.
“We also discovered through our painstaking efforts that the controversial Chief Security Officer(CSO) to the governor, one Chief Superintendent of Police Omoyele Adekunle (the leader of the Killer Squad) has been the one giving instructions and protection to the hooded political thugs.
“Our discovery also revealed that the Osun State chapter of the PDP has provided police and the Nigerian Army uniforms to be given to their numerous thugs on Thursday during our presidential rally.
“It was also learnt that the PDP is planning to kit the political hoodlums with branded APC uniforms and fez caps with a view to giving the false identities of the PDP-sponsored political thugs.
“According to our reliable source, part of the bobby traps orchestrated by the PDP/Adeleke to truncate the Tinubu/Shettima presidential rally on Thursday is to prevent commercial vehicles and motorcycles from working by the use of political thugs to be led by Ado ‘Igbona’ and ‘Emir’ in Osogbo metropolis.
“We also have an uncontroverted information that the embattled Governor Adeleke and his co-travellers in the PDP have recruited 3000 women on N2000 each to embark on a ferocious protest beginning from tomorrow (Wednesday) through Thursday. The starting point of the women protest is Gbongan-Ibadan road and to be moved to Osogbo later on Thursday.
“It was also gathered that Adeleke and the PDP have mapped out another plan to use political hoodlums to be waylaying our members and supporters who might be coming to Osogbo for the presidential rally from the various towns and villages on Thursday.
“Our efforts also yielded fruition in discovering that the leaders of the PDP/Adeleke killer squad who had been declared wanted by the police over murder are hibernating at the Ede country home of the embattled Governor Adeleke.
“Immediate and concerted proactive approach should be given to the arrest, investigation and prosecution of some of the underlisted PDP political thugs who have records of political violence in the state.
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