Osun State Government and the opposition All Progressives Congress on Tuesday traded words over alleged ploy to assassinate Governor Ademola Adeleke by members of the opposition party.
The government in a statement by Oluomo Kolapo Alimi called on the president of the federal government of Nigeria, the Inspector General of Police and other security agencies in the country to urgently summon a former PDP stalwart in Osun State, Alhaji Shuaibu Oyedokun for questioning over his recent comments on the person and personality of Adeleke.
Alimi said the “government viewed with gross concern and outright dismay, the careless and unguarded utterances made by Alh. Shuaib Oyedokun where he advised Governor Adeleke not to contest for second term Governorship bid Osun State, if Governor Adeleke doesn’t want an act of murder to be carried out and be hanged on the Governor and the highly respected Adeleke family of Ede where the Governor hails from.
“Alhaji Oyedokun threw cautions to the wind in many of his politically uncultured and morally unguarded remarks during a live Yoruba radio programme on Rave F.M, Osogbo, tagged Oro Oselu, on Monday, the 20th of May, 2024. Osun State Government viewed such comments as not only inciting but the highest form of desperation from Oyedokun and the entire Osun APC he defected to recently.
Reacting to the allegation, the APC Chairman, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal in a statement by Director of Media of the APC, Chief Kola Olabisi told the government that nothing must happen to Pa Oyedokun.
The state APC chairman noted that there was nothing suggestive of the desire of Papa Oyedokun to promote or foment violence or crisis in the interview of the political sage in a Yoruba radio programme which was monitored in Osogbo on Monday.
Lawal disclosed that it was the truth embedded in the context of the interview which was the cause of the perpetual incontinence being experienced by Governor Adeleke and his political co-travellers.
In the words of the Osun State APC chairman: “How on earth would someone who has his thinking faculty intact adduce the promotion of crisis or violence to a man whose 90th birthday anniversary is knocking?
“What Baba Oyedokun who is a realist was saying was that Governor Adeleke and his goons should not repeat the slaughtering of the APC members and supporters just the way no fewer than 30 of such APC stakeholders were killed by the PDP thugs in order to rig the last series of elections in the state for Governor Adeleke and all other PDP candidates.
“I know Governor Adeleke has blood running in his veins which must be the reason for him to expressly admit that the victories that himself and other elected political functionaries are flaunting were achieved by stepping on the blood of the innocent members and supporters of the APC.
“Governor Adeleke and his co-travellers should stop ranting and come to terms with the reality that his lack of administrative- know-how has been the bane of his government which will irredeemably see him out of office with ignominy in 2026.
“Though there’s a common aphorism that one cannot give what he does not possess, our advice for you as a party is to leave Pa Shuaib Oyedokun alone and face proper governance instead of being a common patron to pubs in Lagos and Abuja where you dance away your time to the detriment of the development of the state”, Lawal cautioned.
