IGP Egbetokun, APC Plotting To Assassinate Gov Adeleke…Feb 22 LG Elections ‘Sacrosanct’ -Osun PDP

As the stand-off over the control of local governments in Osun State continued on Wednesday, the state PDP has alleged that the Inspector General Of Police, Mr Kayode Egbetokun and some political bigwigs in the State of the Living Spring are plotting to stop Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC), from going ahead with the local government elections scheduled to hold on February 22,2025.

The party has also submitted that the nation’s police chief should be held responsible ‘in the event of any ugly eventualities in Osun State’.

Presiding over a press conference at the state secretariat on Wednesday, the state chairman, Chief Sunday Bisi said the IGP and the state APC are banking on ‘a nonexistent court order’ to plot violence in the state while alleging that there are plans to get rid of Governor Ademola Adeleke.

The party also said the deployment of Special Forces to the state to escort the opposition members to the local government councils 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’.

‘One wonders how and why the IGP sidetracked the Governor of Osun State before taking a stance with respect to the copies of the judgment at his disposal on the disputes over local government administration in the state. 

The stark disobedience to the laid down protocols and rules by the IGP, Mr Egbetokun, especially with regard to 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 trouble makers 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 48hours .

We are not unaware that the desperation of Mr Egbetokun and his APC cohorts is ultimately to prevent the local government elections 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 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.

Osun State is not a state to be intimidated by anyone, even if the present experience was part of the basis for which Egbetokun’s expired tenure was extended’ the party added.

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The state PDP also commended Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSSIEC) for ‘towing the path of law and legality in its preparations for the upcoming local government elections’ while urging the general public not to ‘succumb to the tactics of the APC and their allies in security outfits’ as the local government elections scheduled to hold on Saturday, February 22, 2025, will hold without fail.

‘By the effect of the Federal High Court judgment of November 30, 2022 in suit no FHC/OS/CS/103/2022, which was affirmed by the Appeal Court with the dismissal of the appeal by APC  challenging the verdict, there clearly exists vacancy in the 30 local governments in Osun as recognized by the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and in line with the Supreme Court judgment of July 11, 2024, and not the nonexistent 69 councils in which the APC held the YES or NO election on October 15, 2022, which was invalidated by the law court’ Chief Sunday Bisi 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 08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com.  Thank you