By Richard Akintade, Osogbo
The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the attacks by suspected Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) thugs which have thrown the state into panic and confusion since the state Governor, Ademola Adeleke, was inaugurated in Osogbo, the state capital, on Sunday.
According to a statement signed by the State Deputy Chairman of the APC, Sooko Taju Lawal, in Osogbo, the state capital, “the premeditated attacks in Osogbo, Ilesa, Ile-Ife, Iwo, Ila-Orangun, Ijebu-Jesa and other towns in the state which erupted immediately after the swearing in of the new PDP governor is an indication that the Governor Adeleke-led administration is not capable of constitutionally protecting the life and property of the state.”
Lawal stated that the attacks on the innocent members of the public by the PDP hoodlums was inhuman, inconsiderate, barbaric and pungently oppressive.
He disclosed that there were reports indicating that a number of people had been attacked and wounded with vehicles either burnt down and innocent people being harassed within the 48 hours of the existence of the PDP administration in the state.
He said that the development was an indication that the helmsman of the new administration was putting on a proverbial oversized shoes.
The state APC chief implored the police authorities and other security agencies in the state to double up their efforts in discharging their statutory duties of securing life and property.
Lawal hinted that it was a pity that the Osun PDP and Governor Adeleke had chosen willful injection of hostility and violence as the hallmark of their new administration where innocent people were being needlessly attacked and harassed without any just cause.
He stated that it was sad indeed that it was booming of guns and crying of attacks and molestation of members of the APC in the state that heralded the administration of Governor Adeleke’s administration.
The state APC chief enjoined the state House of Assembly to take a decisive step on how peace and sanity could be brought back to the hitherto one of the most peaceful states in Nigeria.
He questioned the needs and propriety of the attack of Osun Amotekun Corps members at the inauguration of Governor Adeleke at the Osogbo City Stadium on Sunday by the PDP-created members of the Special Security Outfit who had been brandishing new guns to terrorise and intimidate members and supporters of the APC.
He said that it was saddening that all the motor parks in the state have been turned to fierce battle fields where members of the National Union of Road, Transport Workers (NURTW) wing of the state PDP had invaded with a view to forcefully taking over the running of the affairs of the union.
The APC chief also reminded the unruly PDP handlers and their members to remember that Osun State “does not exist in isolation as there are provisions of the laws of the land at the centre capable of instilling sanity into any persistently rancorous state.”
Lawal disclosed that with the crisis, the APC had been vindicated about the security alarm which it raised in its petition to the state commissioner of police which was copied to the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 11 in Osogbo three days ago.
The APC chief told Adeleke to sit up and face governance instead of pursuing vengeance all over the place as governance was not a tea party.
Meanwhile, Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke has warned against violence among transport workers’ unions in the State, directing security agencies to maintain status quo across the motor parks.
“All union leaders and their supporters are hereby directed to remain calm and bring any grievances to the State Government for resolution. Security agencies are consequently directly to maintain law and order.”
The governor made this warning through Mallam Olawale Rasheed, the spokesperson to the Executive Governor.
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