Osun APC calls on Police to probe lawmaker Omirin, for alleged political killings
By Deborah Oladejo, Osogbo
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has called on the Police command to investigate the involvement of the lawmaker representing Ijesa-South Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon Sanya Omirin over his alleged masterminding of heinous activities in the last elections conducted in the State.
This action follows the confession of one Olabode Owoeye, also known as “Bode Itaapa,” who, after being arrested and paraded by the State police command, implicated Omirin in the killings of APC members and supporters during the 2022 governorship and 2023 general elections.
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 stated that the confessional statement of Bode Itaapa to be responsible for the killings in Ijesaland has vindicated the APC on its claim that the elections were not free or fair.
Lawal who commended the police for doing a marvelous job enjoined the law enforcement agents to get to the root of the matter by instantly inviting Omirin to clear his name on the criminal matter as a lawmaker must be seen to be above board on any issue of criminality.
He stated that it was imperative for the police to extend their investigative dragnets on the matter by arresting and prosecuting all the suspects mentioned in the killings of the APC members if only to serve as a deterrent in the future elections.
According to the chairman,”When we were insisting that the PDP didn’t play by the rules during the last elections in the , some people did not believe our allegations. But now that the truth is coming out, it is obvious that all the PDP candidates who later won the controversial elections, the results of which fraudulently catapulted them into various elected and appointed political offices, are stepping on the blood of the innocent members of our party.
“I am also imploring the police to take care of the safety of Bode Itaapa as some of the names of his other PDP sponsors would shake the State to its foundation.
“That Bode Itaapa, a PDP member and thug, could be callous and inconsiderate enough to have confessed to be working in cahoot with Adefioye Solomon a.k.a. ‘Solo Iwara’ and Samuel David to kill our member, Ibrahim Taiwo Adebiyi a.k.a. ‘Omo Alaja’, at Eti-Oni in Atakumosa-East Local Government Council Area of the state; two miners, Kelechi Agha, Tega Robinson; shot Hon Ayodeji Olaolu, an APC House of Representatives aspirant in the 2023 election, in the head and chest, should be a verifiable cause of action for his arraignment without further delay.
“For God’s sake, Bode Itaapa does not deserve to be living among human beings as what he could be doing with a locally-made barreta pistol with life cartridges, one single barreled gun, one pump action gun, face masks and charms if he is not fugitive to justice, remains a source of worry to any right-thinking members of the society.”
Lawal urged the police to intensify their investigation to verifying the entity that owns a private security outfit guarding the mining site in Iperindo and environs who lured the political thugs with motorcycles and jumbo pay to encourage them to attack members of the public.
