Osun APC accuses Gov. Adeleke of sponsoring protests against Tinubu’s Govt
By Ismail Azeez, Osogbo
The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has alleged that Governor Ademola Adeleke is behind the ongoing protests in the state against the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The APC also accused PDP thugs of planning to burn down the state party Secretariat and the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Secretariat, urging the security services to take proactive measures to prevent violence and protect lives and property in the state.
The Osun State chairman of the APC, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, in a statement issued by the party’s Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi, on Sunday disclosed that he has privileged information that some characters in the state PDP are scheming to replicate the magnitude of the violence in Kano in the state through the protest.
Lawal enjoined the statutory security services to be proactive by nipping in the bud the evil plans of the PDP thugs at the prompting of the Chief executive of the state to rock the existing peace in the state by going after the property of the opposition under the guise of protesting.
In Lawal’s words: “We have dependable intelligence information that it was Governor Adeleke who has been arming his men during the protest under the pretext of embarrassing President Tinubu.
“There is credible intelligence linking the governor with the sponsorship of the rampage in Osun State as some of his appointees and chieftains of the PDP were visibly captured playing leading roles in the protest in Osogbo on Thursday and Friday.
“If the protest was not sponsored and designed to discredit President Tinubu, why did some of the self-named demonstrators go berserk and pounced on innocent citizens when placards lampooning the kindergarten and purposeless administration of Governor Adeleke were displayed during the procession?
“Why should the professed agitators muffle down the voice of the citizens expressing their disenchantment over the problematic and wicked administration in the state who have failed to use the humongous revenue received by it in almost two years in the saddles to bring the dividend of democracy to them?
“Is that not clear evidence that the alleged protesters are mere mercenaries procured to play dirty politics to shield the fantastic failure of the government in Osun State?
“We enjoin the police to immediately swing into action with a view to protecting the lives and property of the citizenry from the hands of the PDP janjaweed who are all out to turn the state into a needless theatre of war in the name of tarnishing the name of President Tinubu,” the statement added.
