By Ismail Azeez
The Imole Campaign Council has clarified that Governor Ademola Adeleke merely made a clarion call to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to ensure a free, fair, and credible governorship election in Osun State, dismissing allegations that the governor attacked the President.
In a statement signed on Tuesday by the Director-General of the Imole Campaign Organisation, Akogun Lere Oyewumi, the council reiterated the Governor’s passionate plea for Mr. President to intervene as the father of the nation to stop the killing and maiming of residents and Accord members, affirming that “at no point did the governor attack or deride the President.”
According to him, “Governor Adeleke only called the attention of President Tinubu to the ongoing repression and intimidation of Osun residents and urged the President to call the Marine Minister, Gboyega Oyetola, to order so as to stop a recurrence of the political violence of the past.”
“The state governor only informed the President of constant killings that are driving the state toward genocide. The Accord party has lost seven members, with more than 20 suffering various gunshot injuries in the last three months. Presently, more than 60 Accord members are languishing in illegal police detention.”
“In 2022, the governor lost 45 of his supporters at the hands of APC thugs. The police did not raise a finger to prosecute suspected APC thugs who killed our members during the 2022 elections. APC thugs are daily raiding the towns and houses of Accord leaders. The facts are in the public domain.”
“The governor also referenced the Osun local government crisis, in which over N350 billion of Osun local government funds have been diverted and used by illegal APC operatives whose falsely claimed tenure has also lapsed.”
“The governor only spoke the truth about the illegality across Osun local governments and urged the President to intervene so that APC illegal occupants of the councils will vacate their posts.”
“The State Governor only repeated what the Campaign Council has documented on several occasions: that APC-sponsored thugs are daily terrorizing the residents of Osun, including Accord members.”
“The lies and concoctions regarding Osun’s finances leveled by the Osun APC fall flat because Osun has won several awards for budget transparency and came third nationally in auditing responsiveness.”
“The Adeleke administration runs a due process- and transparency-based government with massive good governance delivery across all sectors,” he said.