…APC’s allegations are baseless, delusional – PDP
The Osun State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress has revealed 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 the Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The Acting Chairman of the Party, Sooko TAJUDEEN LAWAL, disclosed this to newsmen in a press conference held at the Tinubu/ Shettima Campaign office on Tuesday in Osogbo.
The party Chieftain said the rally was slated to come up on Thursday, February 2, 2023 at the Osogbo Township Stadium, Osogbo, Osun State and they have gathered evidences that the Opposition party wants to disrupt the peaceful rally.
“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”, he stated.
“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 thier reliable source, he said “part of the bobby traps orchestrated by the PDP/Adeleke to truncate the Tinubu/Shettima presidential rally on Thursday was 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”, he explained further.
“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”, he emphasised.
He also reiterated that their effort also yielded fruition, when they discovered 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.
“However, 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”.
Lawal also emphasised that 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.
However, he listed names of the political miscreants under the opposition party :Olalekan Ajagungbade a.k.a. ‘Emir’ hails from Osogbo, Sikiru Oyeniyi a.k.a. ‘Ado Igbona’ hails from Olorunda, Solomon Adefioye Adedimeji a.k.a. ‘Solo Iwara’ hails from Atakumosa, Wakeel Nurudeen a.k.a. ‘Alowonle’ hails from Osogbo, Bode Olakayode a.k.a. ‘Bode Itaapa’ hails from Atakumosa, Ibukun Fadipe a.k.a. ‘IBK’ hails from Ilesa, Ibrahim Gbadamosi a.k.a. ‘Gbedu’ hails from Boripe, Sanya Omirin hails from Ilesa, Akogun Lere Oyewumi hails from Ikire, Clement Akanni a.k.a. ‘Olorunwa’ hails from Ila-Orangun, Wakeel Dokky who hails from Ede, Yemi Aleba who hails from Ede, Kareem Oladeji Aflao who hails from Ede, Taye Trouble who hails from Ede, Baba Ibeji Thunder who hails from Ede, Sekere Olota who hails from Ede, Oriade OPC who hails from Ede, Bayo Falade a.k.a. ‘Bayo Landlord’ who hails from Ilesa.
Spokesperson of the Osun State Campaign Council and Former Commissioner for Works, Remi Omowaye has also appealed to Security Agencies in Osun State and Federal level to come to their aid and make Osun State peaceful once more.
” We are appealing to Security agencies across the State, even Federal Level to come to our aid, to rescue Osun State, to make it one of the Peaceful States in Nigeria.
Reacting to the allegations made by the All Progressives Congress, the Osun State Peoples Democratic Party has described it has been ridiculous, delusional and baseless.
Dr Adekunle Akindele, The State Caretaker Chairman of the party disclosed in a statement that the allegations that the party or its government was planning to attack Tinubu’s rally in Osogbo, was a reminder that the All Progressives Congress (APC) was afraid of Wasiu Ayinde’s prophesy of failure when Mr Tinubu last visited the state.
“We find APC and its Osun team as a bunch of illegitimate pretenders to power who daily suffer from delusional disorder and political instability. Having been rejected by the people, they see ghost of their misadventure in power and endlessly chase shadow, leveling baseless allegations against credible leaders of the society who have distinguished themselves in various fields of human endeavour”.
” Only a set of people needing urgent medical attention will list prominent leaders of the state as political thugs.
A party which for four years paraded thugs as its leaders is not ashamed to splash mud on decent leaders of the society like the leading National Assembly candidates of our great party”.
“We remind the APC that the PDP is not a party that glorifies the likes of MC Oluomo and Asiri Eniba. We connect with the people with persuasion. So we have no sinister agenda unlike APC that disrupted PDP rallies on several occasions in the prelude to the last election. We have no militia. We have no killer squad unlike Mr Oyetola’s gang which rained bullets on its partymen meeting at Oranmiyan House last year”.
” Let the APC be reminded that its praise singer , Wasiu Ayinde had rightly predicted that the victory of PDP in Osun is a prelude to PDP victory at the general election. We are also elated that the Buga judgement had reinforced our peoples conviction that their vote must be against Bola Tinubu and APC”.
