The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has raised the alarm over an alleged plan by Governor Ademola Adeleke and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to disrupt its presidential campaign billed for Thursday 2nd February, 2023.
The APC alleged that majority of the security guards being used by Adeleke are political hoodlums.
Addressing journalists at the Tinubu/ Shettima Campaign Office, Ogo-Oluwa, Osogbo on Tuesday, the acting Chairman of APC in the State, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, alleged further that the governor and his party plans to prevent commercial vehicles and motorcycles from working on the day so as to truncate the presidential rally.
Lawal, who was represented by his spokesperson, Kola Olabisi, also alleged that the governor and his party have recruited 3000 women to embark on a protest beginning from tomorrow (Wednesday) through Thursday.
He said: “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 observed that the embattled Governor Adeleke’s security guards are always hooded and a revelation that the majority of the hooded security guards are political hoodlums that the governor is using for extra-judicial killings and attacks of the opposition members across the 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.
“Gathered information also revealed that the PDP has commissioned some urchins and thugs with a mandate to be throwing stones at the convoy of Tinubu/Shettima and all other APC dignitaries at Owode-Ede who will be coming to the rally 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.
“It was also reliably gathered that all the efforts by the police to bring the said controversial CSP Omoyele to justice over some murder cases sometime ago have proved abortive.
“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.
“While we are imploring the members of our party and our numerous supporters to troop out to be active participants in the rally of our presidential candidate on Thursday, we are pleading with our members and supporters to maintain decorum even when confronted with avoidable provocation from the agents of disruptions.
“We are also appealing to the state police command and other statutory sister security agencies in the state not to take the issue of security with levity in the state at all times before, during and after our Thursday’s President rally.
“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.”
Source- westernpost
