Oyetola’s EndSars gifts, political gimmick – Adeleke campaign organisation

By Deborah Oladejo, Osogbo

The Campaign Organisation of Osun Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke has described the compensation paid to the victims of EndSars in the state by Governor Gboyega Oyetola as a political gimmick, that has no effect. 

A statement signed in Osogbo on Thursday by Chairman, Media and Publicity Committee, Senator Ademola Adeleke Campaign Organisation (SAACO), Diran Odeyemi urged the beneficiaries to accept the gifts as their rights and benefits but should not allow themselves to be swayed by the Greek gift because it lacks sincerity of purpose and genuineness. 

The PDP governorship candidate therefore requested the electorate to be resolute in voting out the administration of Oyetola which he said was premised on deceit and bad leadership.

The statement reads: “About two months to another governorship election in Osun State, the way and manner the failing administration of Governor Adegboyega Oyetola is wallowing in abject confusion has left much to be desired. 

“About a year after the EndSars panel submitted their report, Governor Oyetola is clinging unto everything to get relevance and set to reward the victims of EndSars today, unknown to him that the Osun State electorate are now wiser and determined more than ever before to retake the stolen mandate.

“We sympathize with the families who lost their loved ones to the Endsars imbroglio but it is instructive to say such victims should not be used as political guinea pigs by Oyetola to harvest votes.

“Playing political chess game on the blood of innocent youths who died in the Endsars protest to us, is like dancing on their graves, a thoughtless height of wickedness and an action which gives Oyetola away as a political baron who gives no hoot about whatever happens to anyone, except his political interest is at stake.

“While we urge the beneficiaries to accept the monetary rewards, as the case may be as their rights and entitlements, we say with all equanimity that the gestures lack sincerity of purpose, empathy and genuineness that it supposed to attract. 

“We wonder where the government was about a year ago, without taking cogent action, but now giving out compensation at the twilight of its administration.

“The township roads that are also being awarded when the administration is winding up is another case in point. 

“But we have no doubt in our minds that the electorate in Osun, cannot be fooled by these gimmicks as they are now wiser more than ever before and ready to cast their votes for Senator Ademola Adeleke with landslide victory to retrieve the stolen mandate.”