The Osun State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has raised alarm on the relentless campaign of violence unleashed on members of it’s party and indeed innocent members of the public in Osun State by the All Progressives Congress (APC).
This was contained in a release signed by the State PDP Caretaker Committee Chairman, Dr Dr Akindele Adekunle and made available to Journalists in Osogbo on Saturday.
Dr Akindele described the attack, as with those before it, as part of a calculated plot to intimidate and scare PDP members and supporters ahead of the conduct of the general election because the opposition party in the state, APC is afraid of the resolve of Osun people at the poll, and want to deploy violence to make it impossible for voters to come out and exercise their franchise.
He added that the assailants, who were sponsored by the APC House of Representatives candidate for Ila/Boluwaduro/Ifedayo, Obawale Adewale and the APC candidate for Ila State Constituency, Lateef Adebisi Jayeola swooped on armless member at the dead of the night, inflicting serious injuries on him.
The PDP Caretaker Chairman said; “We are once again constrained to call the attention of the public to the relentless campaign of violence unleashed on members of our party and indeed innocent members of the public in Osun State by the All Progressives Congress (APC). The latest of the despicable act was the attack on Wasiu Adeleke, a PDP member in Ila local government, at about 1:00am on Saturday.
“Such is the level of desperation of the APC whose record of misrule has caused them enormous disinterest and undisguised disaffection by Nigerians . But we must warn that there is limit to how much of this barbarity Osun people can take, and will resist this attempt to cow them.
“This is why we have to charge the Police and other security agencies in the state to be alive to their responsibilities in ensuring the safety of our members and Osun people as a whole. By now and with all the warmings by our great party, it is expected that security agencies would have risen up to their responsibility and go after the hoodlums imported into the state by the APC.
“Failure of the security agencies to track and apprehend criminals terrorising Osun people, particularly PDP members in the guise of election, will be devastating for the peace of the state as people will be forced to defend themselves from these mindless attacks. This is not something anyone will want and for that, the security agencies in the state should tame APC thugs.
“We are therefore calling on Osun people to be at alert and stay alive to their security of their immediate community as we draw close to the general election. The show of desperation of the APC is nothing but the last kick of a dying horse that will surely be placed into the dustbin of history where they rightly belong at this time.”
