Sequel to the conduct of the governorship election in Osun State about four weeks ago, the debasement of the sanctity of human lives by political thugs is assuming a dangerous dimension as no fewer than four people had been killed in the circumstances suspected to be sponsored political killings.
The latest intelligence information scooped by the Office of The Osun State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Osogbo, the state capital, has revealed that there is a coordinated plan to attack Chief Kola Olabisi, the Media Adviser to the Chairman, Prince Gboyega Famodun.
According to the intelligence which was disclosed to Olabisi by a well-wisher who is not a politician but living outside the country, an arrangement to strike by the hired assassins has been concluded.
It was gathered that the co-ordinated arrangement to attack Olabisi who is only doing his legitimate job of being the mouthpiece of the state APC Chairman was hatched in Osogbo and perfected in Ede by a group of some renegades in the progressives party who secretly worked against the re-election of Governor Gboyega Oyetola.
The intelligence revealed further that the said progressive members of the APC in the day but the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members in the night are actually working in cahoots with the original members of the reactionary party to carry out the attack.
The concerned well-wisher who called from his base in the United States of America yesterday who preferred anonymity disclosed that the job for the attack has been contracted out and that it’s the modality for its execution that’s being worked out.
The intelligence revealed that Olabisi is too hard in his criticism of the winner of the July 16, 2022 Osun State governorship election, Senator Ademola Adeleke, through his write-ups and interviews in both conventional and social media.
Information also has it that the aggrieved and disenchanted masterminds of the planned onslaught against Olabisi are accusing him of taking up a position for the restoration of the Oyetola mandate even more than the APC governorship candidate himself.
The intelligence revealed further that the masterminds of the planned attack cautioned that what could only safe Olabisi is to back down completely or he should be ready to pay the supreme price.
It is based on the above marshalled intelligence that the statutory security agencies in Osun State are charged to work towards nipping the attack plan in the bud in order to sentence the State of the Virtuous into a den of killers.
It’s however apposite to state that criticism is a necessary ingredient of partisan politics through which the electorate are made to have a deeper insight of those who are jostling to represent them at various levels of government.
There’s is a common saying that whoever detests being showered with water has no business to be by the river. Anyone who aspires to occupy a public office should forget about sanctity of his privacy.
What is still a mirage is that if what is being expected is that political criticisms should be one sided whereby another party should not have a right of reply may not come to fruition as such expectation is not in tandem with what is obtainable in partisan politics at all levels.
The heat on the three presidential candidates of the APC, the PDP and the Labour Party in persons of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Alhaji Atiku Mohammed and Peter Obi is fiercer as it’s being witnessed on daily basis.
One should wonder how many negative critics across the country would be slated for assassination for voicing out their feelings about the presidential candidates who are aspiring to preside over their affairs?
Those who are planning the heinous killing of someone who is only doing his job should come off it and change over a new leaf as such act is not only wicked but primitive.
If Governor Gboyega Oyetola could take the heat of unnecessary name callings by the PDP members and leaders since his assumption of office about four years ago, there is no moral or legal justification for a group of dissidents to be crying more than the bereaved in the opposition party.
OLABISI is the Media Adviser to the Osun State APC Chairman.