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THE Acting Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal has sent Save-Our-Soul (SOS) to the Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba that the party has lost confidence in the Osun State Police Commissioner, CP Patric Kehinde Longe for being partial and his failure to arrest the violence perpetrated by PDP thugs in the State.
In a Press Conference at the TINUBU/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council held at their office in Ogo-Oluwa Area along Gbongan Road, Osogbo, Osun State on Wednesday, February 15, 2023, the Acting Chairman called on the IGP to save Osun from further bloodshed.
The Acting Chairman was represented by his Spokesperson, Chief Kola Olabisi.
According to the APC Chairman, the Police Commissioner has not done anything to arrest the perpetrators of the violence orchestrated by the PDP despite reporting the incident to the Police on many occasions.
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They are known to be bragging that they cannot be arrested by the Police. He cited a case of a thug who was arrested from Ifetedo and taken to Osun Police Command but was not allowed to alight from the car before he was allowed to go.
The Acting Chairman said members of his party are being intimidated with unprovoked attacks by PDP thugs in Atakumosa-East Local Government Council Area to the extent that APC members flee to squat and hibernate in Ilesa, Ile-Ife, Osogbo and other towns to evade political attacks.
He alleged that properties of scores of APC members in the Atakumosa-East Local Government Council Area have been wilfully destroyed by the PDP thugs as a ploy to prevent members and supporters from taking part in the forthcoming general elections.
He said some of their members are now hibernating and squatting in Ilesa, Ile-Ife, Osogbo and other towns to evade political attacks.
“The most pathetic and annoying development is that some of the PDP leaders have formed an habit of inciting the PDP members and thugs against our people at different political fora flaunting the support of the Police in carrying out their anti-social, undemocratic, wicked and primitive activities against perceived or real political opponents.
On February 2nd, 2023, the APC Ward 9 Treasurer in Ikire, Irewole Local Government Council Area of the state, Saheed Oyegunju a.k.a. ‘SP’ while engaging in his lawful commercial motorcycle riding was abducted by the political thugs led by one Segun Adegoke, the owner of Country Lodge in Ikire and Akeem Oriade in broad daylights. Adegoke and Oriade are political hoodlums and associates of Akogun Lere Oyewumi, the PDP Senatorial candidate in the Osun-West Senatorial District of the state.
Surprisingly, the lifeless body of the abducted APC member, Oyegunju, was found in the outskirt of Ikire the following day while the State Caretaker committee Chairman of the PDP, Dr. Akindele Adekunle, in an interview, categorically said that the killed APC treasurer was ‘a cultist’.
In a saner clime, the Police would have invited the sit-tight Osun PDP caretaker Chairman to throw more light on what he knows about the murder of Oyegunju.
It is on record that the video recorded and verifiable inciting statements against the APC members were made in different occasions by some PDP chieftains like Adesina Rabiu Atanda, the PDP House of Assembly candidate for Iwo State Constituency; Clement Akanni Olorunwa, the PDP House of Representatives candidate for Ila Federal Constituency and Akogun Lere Oyewumi, who was fingered in the murder of Oyegunju, few days ago.
Some of the other prominent PDP thugs who were inciting their members against the APC members are one Sarafa Awotunde a.k.a. ‘SPAIN’; Sanya Omirin and Emir Ajagungbade.
Let me, at this juncture inform you that a privileged information has disclosed that Adeleke and the PDP leadership in the state have concluded a co-ordinated arrangement to use the police to embark on the arrest of some of the leaders of our party in order to disenfranchise them and create fears in the minds of our members ahead of the presidential and other remaining elections in the state.
It was gathered that Adeleke and the PDP had skillfully designed the indiscriminate arrest of our members to be carried out by the pliable Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) who were transferred to their different duty posts amidst criticisms by us shortly after the current state Commissioner of Police, Mr Patrick Kehinde Longe, assumed office, recently.
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Information also has it that the Osun State chapter of the PDP has a discreet Committee whose duty is to compile the names and addresses of the targeted APC members to be arrested and possibly attacked and killed.
Gentlemen of the press, the kernel of our press conference is that the PDP, Adeleke and Osun State Police Command, under CP Longe, should be held responsible for any break-down of law and order as the general elections are approaching in a few days time.
The main source of our concern about the pitiable security situation of our state since the inauguration of the sacked Governor Adeleke’s administration is that the Police which is the statutory security agency in the state have not been doing enough to dispassionately maintain peace and order.
It was observed that the police are always looking away when our members are being attacked by the PDP thugs in Osogbo, Ede, Ilesa, Ijebu-Jesa, Ila-Orangun, Ikire, Iwo, Ikirun, Okuku, Ifetedo etc which make us to suspect and conclude that the police has not been maintaining neutrality in the discharge of their official responsibility. They favour the PDP.
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The funniest aspect of the unsavoury development is that the political hoodlums who were arrested and brought down to the Police Command in Osogbo from Ifetedo few days ago were not even allowed to alight from the vehicle that brought them before they were surprisingly left off the hook based on the directive from the top.
It is based on the totality of the insensitive attitude of the leadership of the Nigeria Police to the plight of members of our party that we are making a clarion call for the transfer of the State Commissioner of Police, Mr Patrick Kehinde Longe from our state.
We are calling on the Inspector-General of Police to intervene in our plight by urgently effecting the transfer of the Osun State Commissioner of Police, Longe, as his best is found out not to be in the best interest of any genuine democratic setting.
We shall not desist from our fervent belief in the rules of law which is the pedestal of our party no matter the level of provocation from any quarters.”
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Meanwhile, the ex-Commissioner of Works in Osun and the Spokesperson of TINUBU/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Osun State Chapter, Remi Omowaye at the Press Conference said Osun residents should exercise patients that hardships being experienced by the people over Cashless Policy will soon come to an end.
Omowaye alleged that when Senatorial Candidate of PDP, Lere Oyewunmi threatened to use explosives in viral video and other threats from Iwo House Assembly candidate against APC members, the Police Commissioner did nothing which showed that it is either he is not competent to hold that position or he is working for the PDP against the APC leadership.
He added that an associate of Governor Adeleke once threatened that whenever there is gunshots that they are responsible, nothing has been done by the Police.
“We call on the IGP that it is glaring that the Commissioner is partisan and for sake of peace to reign he should be removed. We want a CP that is professional”, Omowaye concluded.
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