Osun APC Accuses Zone 11, State Police Command Of Being Instruments Of Oppression, Urges Egbetokun To Intervene

Osun state APC has decried the use of some pliable police officers by the Governor Ademola Adeleke administration to harass, intimidate, humiliate, arrest and dehumanize   members of the leading opposition party in the state.

The state APC added that many of its leading lights  have been invited and investigated by the police for pedestrian and frivolous matters alleging that this was done at the prompting of Governor Adeleke in order to cage the opposition.

‘Information has it that Mr Akin Adeyi, a chieftain of the APC and a respected social commentator on  social media platforms, has been invited copiously within a couple of days by the Zone 11 Command of the Nigeria Police, with its headquarters in Osogbo, based on some frivolous petitions filed by an appointed political functionary in the Governor Adeleke administration .

Further investigation also revealed that strange telephone calls from police officers from both Zone 11 and the Osun state Police Command have been needlessly extended to some of the APC chieftains and members, inviting them in respect of frivolous petitions by the governor and his cohorts’ the party submitted in a statement issued by the state chairman, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal which was made available to Team@orientactualmags.com  by the  Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi.

 The party noted that  ‘it is strange that some police officers could allow themselves to be used cheaply by making themselves available as willing tools of some disgruntled and desperate politicians’.

Lawal  urged the Inspector General of Police to urgently prevail on the Zone 11 and the State Command to resist  being used by  those he referred to as  ‘unfortunate political gladiators in the state whose popularity have taken a back seat’.

‘We are not saying that the law should not be allowed to take its due course, but it becomes worrisome and questions the credibility of the police if the pliable ones among them should surrender themselves to the whims and caprices of the clueless and incompetent political leaders masquerading as those who are above the law of the land.

When we were in the saddle, the PDP which was in the opposition, had an unfettered opportunity and latitude to perform the role of the opposition without any molestation by us.

What could have been the offence of Adeyi in the court of the PDP gladiators in the state beyond skillful orchestrated plans to silence him and give the patently irresponsible government occupying the hallowed Bola Ige House the latitude to inflict more hardship on the people of Osun. 

We are proud of Akin Adeyi and other active media gladiators in our party who in the last two years have exposed the iniquities, sleaze and malfeasance of the kindergarten government  in the state. 

We will do everything necessary to protect them against the harassment of the Babylonian charlatans in the corridors of power in the state.

The earlier the embattled PDP-run government live to learn with the obvious fact  that Adeyi’s decision to identify with the APC is in the fulfillment of his inalienable fundamental human right of association with a political party of his choice, the better it would be for them.

Opposition is a necessary and vital ingredient of any democratic government which has to be contended with by any government which is not graduating to dictatorship.

Now that Adeyi has filed his court processes challenging the enforcement of his fundamental rights  at the Federal High Court,  Osogbo, the police have no other choice than to allow him be.

Another strange development was what could be the reasons why the police should be on the prowl of a legal practitioner, Mr Seyi Oyagbile Esq, who filed the court processes on behalf of Adeyi yesterday as information has it that  the police  were combing Osogbo on Wednesday for the whereabouts of the lawyer.

The long and short of our expectation as the leading opposition party in Osun state is that the police should refuse to be enlisted into political activities in the state for whatever reason in the overall interest of the corporate image of the statutory law enforcement agency’ Lawal 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