APC accuses Osun Govt of plotting attack on council chiefs
By Deborah Oladejo, Osogbo
The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, to direct the state Commissioner of Police to investigate an alleged plot by Governor Ademola Adeleke to attack APC local government officials using individuals disguised as police officers.
In a statement signed by the party’s Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi, the APC alleged that the state government had mobilized Niger Delta militants and hoodlums from other parts of the Southwest to pose as police officers, disrupt market activities, and shift the blame onto the APC.
The party further alleged that the plot included plans to inflict bodily harm on local government officials overseeing market leadership across the state.
The statement partly reads:
“Even though our local government executives have on many occasions stated their resolve to suspend the collection of taxes and levies in the markets to give relief to traders—who for over two years have been extorted by miscreants recruited by the state government under the guise of generating IGR—the Adeleke government continues to misinform the public about the good intentions of our reinstated chairmen and councillors.
“It is unfortunate that Governor Adeleke and his cohorts have refused to accept the fact that, in the eyes of the law today, the reinstated APC executive chairmen and councillors are legally in charge of the administration of local governments across the state, under whose supervision the markets fall.
“By virtue of the Court of Appeal judgment delivered on February 10, 2025, the said chairmen and councillors cannot be said to be performing illegal duties by overseeing the markets, which fall within their constitutional responsibilities.
“One wonders why Governor Adeleke is afraid of approaching the Supreme Court if he disagrees with the Court of Appeal’s decision to reinstate the elected chairmen. He should act decently and honourably, rather than knocking his head against the wall and pacing maniacally like a bull in a china shop.
“We resolve that the political instability Governor Adeleke has courted recently—energized by his faction of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE)—will be resisted fully if he attempts to prevent the legally recognized, duly elected, and reinstated local government council chairmen from performing their constitutional duties.”
