Ezekeil Olapade: Osun APC Accuses Gov Adeleke Of Engaging In Re-election Campaign During Condolence Visit

Osun State APC has accused Governor Ademola Adeleke of making a superfluous political capital out of the recent gruesome and heartless killing of a teenager, Ezekiel Olapade in Ilobu, Irepodun Local Government while also noting that it is strange that the governor could turn the residence of the mourning parents, friends and relations into a campaign ground where he asserted that he will win the forthcoming governorship election despite all the odds against him.

‘Such an occasion for strictly mourning the young lad was inappropriate for Governor Adeleke to have turned it into a campaign ground as it could be likened to the state chief executive doing the wrong thing at the wrong time and wrong place which is the reason he has been getting so many things wrong since the inception of his administration.

It is even saddening that a supposed chief state executive could make an allusion to the phony attack on his son which police investigation report had declared as falsehood and mere fabrication that had only existed in the imagination of the governor’s son.

In Adeleke’s campaign speech at the residence of the bereaved parents of Ezekiel Olapade, the governor was quoted as saying among other things that ‘… we are not afraid as we remain resolute in our re-election bid. We are a courageous people; we cannot be silenced. We hold our heads high as we seek the support of our people. We will vote and by God’s grace, I shall be re-elected’.

It is absurd that the chief executive who has blood flowing in his veins and knows his administrative onions could consider it wise and appropriate to have turned the condolence visit of a fallen teenager into a campaign ground’ the party submitted in a statement made available to Team@orientactualmags.com by its spokesman, Mogaji Kola Olabisi.

The state APC also submitted that Governor Adeleke was wrong in bypassing the police and accusing the opposition party of being responsible for the killing.

‘What else does the accidental governor want the police to investigate when the governor has labelled a suspect before the police investigation in this regard?

It was even a display of the highest level of executive confusion when the same Governor Adeleke stated during his supposed campaign visit to the bereaved family of the deceased person that he had instructed the police to investigate the crime; the same police that his deregistered Accord Party has denied an audience of meeting in the efforts of the state police command to proffer a lasting solution to the violent political activities preceding the forthcoming 15th August, 2026 governorship election in the state.

It is appalling that the governor frivolously assumed the role of the police by giving innuendoes suggesting that the killing was from the opposition.

Governor Adeleke should sit up for once, give quality governance that would guarantee the constitutional protection of the lives and property of the people of the state that he had sworn to protect during the inauguration of his administration over three years ago.

The escalating rate of violent criminal activities in the state since the inception of the Governor Adeleke administration grossly epitomises the monumental failure of his administration in every aspect particularly in the area of security’ the statement added-Team@orientactualmags.com  Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08035023079,  08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com.  Thank you