Adeleke, APC bicker over planned official reception of two senators, two Rep members in Osun
Ahead of President Bola Tinubu’s scheduled visit to Osogbo, the Osun State capital, on Saturday to formally receive defecting federal lawmakers into the All Progressives Congress (APC), Governor Ademola Adeleke
Ahead of President Bola Tinubu’s scheduled visit to Osogbo, the Osun State capital, on Saturday to formally receive defecting federal lawmakers into the All Progressives Congress (APC), Governor Ademola Adeleke and the opposition party have traded accusations.
The APC had slated the event to welcome five serving members of the National Assembly into its fold. They include Senator Francis Fadahunsi (Osun East), Senator Olubiyi Fadeyi (Osun Central), Hon. Oluwole Oke (Obokun/Ori-Ade), Hon. Sanya Omirin (Ijesa South Federal Constituency), and Hon. Taofeek Ajilesoro (Ife Federal Constituency). President Tinubu is expected to officially receive the lawmakers during the visit.
However, the Osun State Government has raised security concerns ahead of the event. In a statement issued by the Commissioner for Information, Kolapo Alimi, the government alleged that it had uncovered plans by the APC to sponsor a protest during the President’s one-day visit.
Alimi claimed the protest was allegedly designed to trigger a breakdown of law and order and subsequently implicate the state’s ruling coalition of ACCORD and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as masterminds of the unrest.
"We want to make it clean and clear that neither does ACCORD nor PDP in Osun state has anything to do with the planned protest, notwithstanding the on going logjams associated with the witheld LG allocation of the state .
"APC's deliberately planned protest of tomorrow, without any fear of contradiction is a diversionary scheme to blackmail Mr Governor and his administration, which by the special grace of God and support of the peace loving people of Osun state is already dead before its execution tomorrow as they (APC) play host to the President of the Federal Republic Of Nigeria, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu.”
Meanwhile, APC through its Director of Media, Chief Kola Olabisi, berated Adeleke over the allegation, saying, “Any government that is not peopled with the confused entities would not come up with such gibberish, baseless and an unfounded allegation of the members of our party to plan a protest against our President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who has been toiling day and night to give qualitative governance to the nation.
“Those lies churned out by the Governor Ademola Adeleke-led government is too cheap and could only have emanated from a demented mind. Come to think of it, what would be the basis for any protest against the visit of the national leader of our party when unarguably his visit is a source of unlimited joy for the members and supporters of our party.
“Our advice is that the state commissioner of police and other statutory security agencies should keep watch on Governor Adeleke and his cohorts as they are fond of accusing others of their devilish intention.”
