Osun State chapters of the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party, on Wednesday, engaged in a heated exchange of accusations regarding security concerns raised by Governor Ademola Adeleke. The governor had sounded an alarm about alleged plans by hoodlums to attack schools and farm settlements in the state.
Adeleke emphasized that intelligence reports had indicated impending attacks on schools and potential abductions, as well as threats to farm settlements. He announced summoning a security council meeting to address the situation.
In response to Adeleke’s warning, the APC, through its state chairman Tajudeen Lawal, issued a statement accusing the governor of spreading false panic regarding the state’s security situation. Lawal expressed disappointment that a governor would stoop to such levels of pettiness to divert public attention from his perceived ineffective and corrupt administration.
He said, “Governor Adeleke should sit up for once and give the people of the state the quality governance he promised the people during his campaign instead of engaging in the creation of another phoney agenda meant to have a diversionary motive.
“We are not politically inexperienced not to have an understanding that the Adeleke-invented security threat against the state is a ploy to shift their attention from discussing his ill-thought-out N100bn white elephant when hunger is working on four legs in all the streets in the nooks and crannies of the state.
“There is nothing wrong in a government being proactive on security issues, but it is criminal and an express admission of failure for any government to use the same as a weapon of deceit to confuse the governed.”
Reacting, the PDP chairman in the state, Mr Sunday Bisi, described Osun APC as inhumane, unpatriotic and delusional for denying reports of threats to peace and security in the state.
The statement read in part, “We find it reprehensible and condemnable for the state APC to deny reports that have been confirmed by virtually all the security agencies in the state. Must the APC play politics with everything?
“A patriotic governor raised the alarm on security threats and he summoned the state security council meeting. The council meeting attended by top security and service commanders reviewed the situation in the light of their field reports and mapped out preemptive measures.
“The resolution of the state security meeting was made public including a list of steps the state is to take to stop the threats from materializing. Instead of commending the governor for his foresight, the opposition has chosen to play bad, sore loser again, levelling unfounded allegations and playing games with the lives and properties of our people. As a party, the PDP government is too well focused on delivering on social programmes designed to restore the state from the depth of under-development the state was plunged into for 12 years.”
