Accord Party berates Osun ALGON over plan to purchase operational vehicle for police

Accord Party through its Osun State Chairman, Pastor Victor Akande, held that the All Progressives Congress (APC) ALGON in Osun State should not spend the council fund which is under contention to empower security, saying, “it both disturbing and disgraceful that the APC has now descended to openly defending what clearly amounts to the institutionalisation of illegality under the guise of security support.

“Let it be stated without ambiguity that empowering the police with proceeds of crime is not patriotism, it is criminality dressed in borrowed robes. No amount of propaganda can whitewash an act that fundamentally violates both law and conscience.”

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He stressed, “The APC Yes/No illegally-reinstated APC council executives, whom the party desperately parades, lack the moral and legal standing to embark on any initiative involving public resources. What the APC celebrates as support for security is, in reality, a dangerous precedent where questionable authority meets questionable funding, all wrapped in a desperate bid for political relevance. Security is too serious a matter to be reduced to scoring political goals.”

Meanwhile, APC, through its Director of Media, Chief Kola Olabisi, berated the ruling Accord Party and Governor Ademola Adeleke for their inability to know that the issue of security of the lives and property of the people towers above any other statutory responsibilities of all the levels of government at all times.

He said, “The ill-advised criticism of the Accord Party against the statutory efforts of the legally reinstated APC local government council chairmen to render provisional support to the police in the fight against commission of crimes, which Governor Ademola Adeleke has not deemed fit to address for over three years, is uncalled for, frivolous, and ill-motivated.

“We observe that the main problem and pains of the Accord Party is not the laudable policy that the legally-reinstated APC local government council chairmen have already achieved over the plan to help the police in fighting crimes across the state but the fact that the proactive patriotic actions of the council executives have succeeded in exposing the Adeleke-led government of grossly lacking in its priority of its constitutional roles to the innocent people of the state.”