The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun state has chided Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun state for ‘begging’ a former Acting Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande after allegedly instigating the bloody violence in the state, over the control of Local Government Areas, LGAs.
Governor Adeleke visited the APC chieftain and a former governor of the state, in his Ibadan home amid suggestions that he’s seeking his support in the current LGAs crisis.
The crisis has led to the death of at least six persons, including a former Chairman of Irewole Local Government, Remi Abass, a member of the APC. who was shot on his way to the council secretariat recently.
The magazine reported that the APC and PDP have clashed over who should be in control of the 24 LGAs in the state, as the parties brandish court judgment in support of their positions.
Amidst the crisis, the ruling APC claimed that Governor Adeleke visited Akande in search of a soft landing, and for him to prevail on APC LGAs chairmen, who have taken over the LGAs secretariat to back down.
According to a statement signed by the state APC spokesperson, Kola Olabisi, the governor must take responsibility for the killings that took place rather than trying to beg Akande to gain his support.
The party said there’s nothing Adeleke could do to buy Akande , who is a democrat into his side, asking whether the governor wanted the APC chieftain to approve the killings that took place in the state, for which it said Adeleke must be held responsible.
Part of the statement read, “It was strange that Governor Adeleke and his cohorts could find a way to Pa Akande’s residence after the Peoples Democratic Party’s thugs, acting on the governor’s body language, had killed one of the reinstated local government council chairmen of Chief Akande’s party, Hon Remi Abass, in Ikire and other members of the opposition party in the other parts of the state a few days ago.
“We want to impress it on Governor Adeleke and his co-travellers that Pa Akande is a democrat and no amount of under-the-table arrangement would make the former governor of the state work against the interest of his party. Does Governor Adeleke want Pa Akande to praise him for being instrumental in the killing of the chieftain and members of his party?
“We want to believe that there are knowledgeable political lieutenants of Governor Adeleke who should guide him aright that the proper place for him to go if at all he has any case for redress after the Akure verdict of 10th of February, 2025, is the Supreme Court.”
The magazine reports that following the bloody clash among the supporters of the two parties, Governor Adeleke directed elected PDP chairmen to stay away from the 30 council secretariats to avert further bloodshed.
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