₦airaland Forum

The leadership of the Osun State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, of colluding with the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) to assassinate the state governor, Ademola Adeleke, amid the crisis surrounding the control of local government areas in the state.

Addressing a press conference at the PDP secretariat in Osogbo, the party chairman, Sunday Bisi, alleged that Egbetokun provided sacked local government chairmen under the APC platform with security cover to take control of councils, claiming that the development was part of a plot to “get rid” of Governor Adeleke.

Bisi said, “As we are all aware, Osun State has been thrown into the cloudy side of the news in recent days, no thanks to the surreptitious activities of the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to destabilise the state with orchestrated violence obviously hatched in active connivance with his office and the opposition All Progressives Congress, banking on a non-existent court order as being brandished by the defeated APC in the state.

“Mr Egbetokun’s deliberate deployment of Special Forces under him to escort some miscreants into the local government councils in the state was nothing but a blatant coup and obviously one out of the many mapped-out plans to assassinate the Governor of our dear State, Senator Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke, whose instruction to restore peace and order as the Chief Security Officer of Osun State was flagrantly violated by Mr Egbetokun.

“We understand that His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has been interfacing with Egbetokun with the sole aim of ensuring peace after the fatal fracas on Monday, occasioned by forceful attempts by the sacked chairmen and councillors purportedly elected on the platform of the opposition APC before the advent of the PDP administration in the state.

“The whole world must warn and prevail on Mr Kayode Egbetokun to desist from being an enabler of orchestrated attempts on the life of our Governor. These plans, we want to emphasize, have been on the cards of the APC in Osun State since the good people of Osun State voted them out of office in 2022.

“The desperation to get rid of Mr Governor and take over the State through whatever means possible has been rife and clear enough since the APC was shut out of government in Osun.

“These comments are made here today for record purposes, and the world must hold the Inspector General of Police accountable in the event of any ugly eventualities in Osun.”

The PDP chairman further claimed that Egbetokun took a stand on the copies of the judgement at his disposal on the disputes over local government administration in the state, adding: “The stark disobedience to the laid down protocol and rules by the IGP Egbetokun, especially as it concerned the security situation in the state, was not only suspicious but apparently dangerous.

“The motive of security reinforcement, if required and as discussed with Egbetokun by His Excellency, the Governor, has not only been betrayed by Mr Egbetokun but has also set dangerous routes for troublemakers to carry out their dastardly act even when the state has just lost almost 10 of our sons and daughters to violent confrontations in less than 48 hours ago.

“We are not unaware that the desperation of Mr Egbetokun and his APC cohorts is ultimately to prevent the local government election from holding in Osun State on Saturday, 22nd of February 2025. We are aware that Mr Egbetokun is ready to bend all the rules, aid and abet the killings of Osun people, especially members of the ruling PDP as we witnessed on Monday, but the IGP should be told in clear terms that he will fail.”

Bisi insisted that the forthcoming election will hold and urged voters in the state “not to succumb to the tactics of the APC and their allies in security outfits as the election billed for Saturday, February 22, 2025, will hold without fail.”

Nemere2020:
https://guardian.ng/news/nigeria/igp-osun-apc-plotting-to-assassinate-adeleke-pdp-alleges/

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