Invasion Of Osogbo Muslim Praying Ground executive recklessness, says Osun APC
The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned Wednesday’s invasion of the Muslim Praying Ground at Okebale, Osogbo by Governor Ademola Adeleke and thugs who are loyal to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with some soldiers and policemen.
According to the state chairman of the APC, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, in a statement issued by the party’s Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi, in Osogbo, the whole scenario which culminated into a rancorous scene orchestrated by Governor Adeleke and his political hoodlums amounted to executive lawlessness.
WesternPost had earlier reported that the governor and former Senate spokesman, Senator Ajibola Bashiru, had clashed over sitting positions at the prayer ground.
According to the APC, it was an attempt to forcefully remove Alhaji Badmus and Senator Bashiru from their seats at the praying ground and subsequent executive order by Governor Adeleke to the police to effect the arrest of the two prominent sons of Osogbo that degenerated into the confusion which engulfed the scene.
Lawal condemned the needless heating up of the polity by Adeleke and his co-travellers, advising him to go and sort out himself with the aggrieved members of his party whom he has been having a running battle with in recent times.
He went down the memory lane to recall how Governor Adeleke was attacked by some disenchanted members of the PDP in Ikirun sometime ago when he went to commission the Osogbo-Ikirun road of which the immediate-past Governor Gboyega Oyetola had achieved its 75 percent completion.
The party chairman registered his disdain for the use of soldiers in the convoy of a governor, advising the new Army Chief of Staff to look into the anomaly of security architecture in Osun State and promptly redress the situation.
Lawal stated that his understanding of protocol is that if a governor is to visit a place of which a praying ground is included, it’s the duty of the advanced party of the governor and his protocol unit to make a solid preparation with reference to the security of sitting arrangement.
The APC chairman observed that there was no reason why such lapses of the government protocols would not be experienced since the statutory security agents, the DSS, who were with Governor Adeleke before have not been brought back after there was an allegation that one of them was slapped by a female member of the governor’s family.
“The way and manner that the conventional policemen attached to the governor who are performing the statutory role of the DSS officers dress, has exposed them as heavily deficient in their strange assignment.
“We, in the APC, won’t tolerate the needless heating up of the polity and disturbance of public peace by someone who is supposed to be the state security officer of the state,” Lawal stated.
