Osun APC alerts security agencies over alleged plan to invade council secretariats

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has alerted security agencies to an alleged plan by purported Peoples Democratic Party local government executives to invade council secretariats across the state.

 

The APC, in a statement signed by its Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi, alleged that the purported PDP chairmen and councillors planned to take over the 30 local government secretariats and the Area Office on Thursday.

 

The party claimed the alleged invasion would be carried out with the assistance of political hoodlums allegedly recruited from within and outside the state.

 

According to the statement, “The alleged invasion was expected to be carried out with the assistance of political hoodlums allegedly recruited from within and outside Osun State.”

 

The APC alleged that the purported council executives had concluded arrangements to deploy the alleged hoodlums to execute the planned takeover.

 

It further claimed that the re-election of Governor Ademola Adeleke had emboldened the purported PDP council executives to regroup and proceed with the alleged plan.

 

The party also alleged that the plan was being carried out in conjunction with officials of the Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees, accusing the union of acting in support of the state government.

 

The APC referenced a Supreme Court judgment concerning one of the suits instituted by the purported PDP council executives, claiming that the court had described them as persons unknown to the law.

 

It urged the Osun State Police Command, Department of State Services and Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps to take proactive measures to prevent any attempt to disrupt public peace.

 

“There is no tact and diplomacy in a set of hoodlums teaming up to promote disruption of public peace in the state on a matter that is still very much alive in the Court of Appeal,” the party said.

 

The APC also urged the purported PDP council chairmen to allow the ongoing legal process to run its course, stressing that all parties to the dispute should await the determination of the courts.

 

“Any step that the aggrieved purported PDP local government council chairmen may take other than recourse to the court has no other name than a monumental illegality,” the party stated.

 

The APC recalled the killing of one of the reinstated APC council chairmen, Remi Abass of Irewole Local Government Area, who it alleged was killed by suspected PDP thugs currently facing trial before the Federal High Court in Abuja.

 

The party said the dispute over the tenure of the reinstated APC council executives remained pending before the Court of Appeal in Akure, Ondo State.

 

It urged security agencies to monitor the purported PDP council executives and NULGE officials to prevent any breakdown of law and order.

 

As of the time of filing the report, neither the Osun State chapter of the PDP nor the state government had reacted to the allegation.