Osun PDP alleges plot to assassinate Governor Adeleke, accuses IGP of complicity

By Deborah Oladejo, Osogbo

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Osun State chapter, has raised an alarm over an alleged plot to assassinate the Governor of the state, Ademola Adeleke.

The State Chairman of PDP, Hon. Sunday Bisi, who addressed a press conference at the party”s secretariat in Osogbo on Wednesday, accused the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, of complicity in the plot.

Bisi claimed that the IGP’s deployment of special forces was to escort some individuals into local government councils in the state, describing it as a “blatant coup” and part of a larger plan to assassinate the governor.

According to him, “no thanks to the surreptitious activities of the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun to destabilise the State with orchestrated violence obviously hatched in active connivance of his office and the opposition All Progressives Congress, banking on a non-existent court order as being brandished by the defeated APC in the State.

“Mr Egbetokun’s deliberate deployment of Special Forces under him to escort some miscreants into the local government councils in the state was nothing but a blatant coup and obviously one out of the many mapped-out plans to assassinate the governor of our dear State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, whose instruction to restore peace and order as the chief security officer of Osun State was flagrantly violated by Mr. Egbetokun.”

The PDP chairman called on the general public to prevail on the IGP to desist from being an enabler of orchestrated attempts on the life of Osun Governor.

He said, “The desperation to get rid of Mr Governor and take over the State through whatever means possible has been rife and clear enough since APC was shut out of government in Osun. These comments are made here today for record purposes, and the world must hold the Inspector General of Police accountable in the event of any ugly eventualities in Osun.”

Bisi also said that the party is not unaware of the desperation of the IGP and APC to prevent the local government election from holding in Osun State on Saturday, 22nd of February 2025.

“We are aware that Mr. Egbetokun is ready to bend all the rules, aid and abet killings of Osun people, especially members of the ruling PDP as we witnessed on Monday, but the IGP should be told in clear terms that he will fail. Osun State is not a state to be intimidated by anyone, even if the present experience was part of the basis for which Egbetokun’s expired tenure of office was elongated,” he alleged.