Osun State chapters of the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Celebration, on Wednesday, traded accusations over the safety alarm raised by the governor, Ademola Adeleke, on the alleged plans by hoodlums to assault colleges and farm settlements within the state.
Adeleke had stated intelligence studies had indicated plans to assault colleges and perform abductions, in addition to farm settlement, including that he had summoned a safety council assembly to deal with the state of affairs.
Reacting to Adeleke’s alarm, the APC in an announcement by its state chairman, Tajudeen Lawal, accused the governor of elevating a false panic concerning safety within the state.
Lawal said that it was disheartening {that a} governor would descend into grave pettiness in an effort to divert the eye of the general public from his hopeless and thieving administration.
He stated, “Governor Adeleke ought to look ahead to as soon as and provides the individuals of the state the standard governance he promised the individuals throughout his marketing campaign as an alternative of participating within the creation of one other phoney agenda meant to have a diversionary motive.
“We aren’t politically inexperienced to not have an understanding that the Adeleke-invented safety risk in opposition to the state is a ploy to shift their consideration from discussing his ill-thought-out N100bn white elephant when starvation is engaged on 4 legs in all of the streets within the nooks and crannies of the state.
“There may be nothing improper in a authorities being proactive on safety points, however it’s prison and an specific admission of failure for any authorities to make use of the identical as a weapon of deceit to confuse the ruled.”
Reacting, the PDP chairman within the state, Mr Sunday Bisi, described Osun APC as inhumane, unpatriotic and delusional for denying studies of threats to peace and safety within the state.
The assertion learn partly, “We discover it reprehensible and condemnable for the state APC to disclaim studies which were confirmed by nearly all the safety companies within the state. Should the APC play politics with every part?
“A patriotic governor raised the alarm on safety threats and he summoned the state safety council assembly. The council assembly attended by prime safety and repair commanders reviewed the state of affairs within the mild of their discipline studies and mapped out preemptive measures.
“The decision of the state safety assembly was made public together with an inventory of steps the state is to take to cease the threats from materialising. As a substitute of commending the governor for his foresight, the opposition has chosen to play unhealthy, sore loser once more, levelling unfounded allegations and enjoying video games with the lives and properties of our individuals. As a celebration, the PDP authorities is simply too effectively centered on delivering on social programmes designed to revive the state from the depth of under-development the state was plunged into for 12 years.”