The Osun State Government has condemned a call for President Bola Tinubu to extend the declaration of the state of emergency which was done in River State to Osun.
In a statement on Wednesday, the Osun State Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Oluomo Kolapo Alimi, fingered the national scribe of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Ajibola Basiru, to be behind the call.
According to Alimi, the state views the call as callous, self centered and unlawful, “going by the fact that there’s a world of difference between the current political development in Rivers and Osun when placed side by side.”
He advised Basiru and the APC not to throw the peace and tranquility currently enjoyed in Osun to a turmoil, all in an attempt to take the reigns of governance through the backdoor.
Alimi recalled that the same Basiru had recently made a similar call when he engaged him on a national television station.
“It must, however, be emphasized that not only Basiru alone holds this senseless and obnoxious impression but the entire APC cohorts and their members/followers in Osun State, who on a daily basis, are scheming for one mischievous device or the other in order to come through the backdoor to take the reigns of governance in Osun State. But by the grace of God and with the support of the people of Osun state for the administration of Ademola Adeleke, all the evil machinations against the people oriented government of Ademola Adeleke will not see the light of the day.
“Furthermore, we call on our President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to see through the antics of people like Ajibola Basiru, a rejected and frustrated politician and his already rejected APC apologists in Osun, by rejecting the wicked and baseless call for the declaration of the state of emergency in Osun,” Alimi said.
He said the APC in Osun lacks the popularity, political acceptance and sagacity to face and defeat Adeleke in any election, hence their resort to all forms of antics to get to power through the back door.
“One of such antics was their failed attempt to cause mayhem in the state through enforcement of non existence Court of Appeal judgment to reinstate their YES/NO chairmen and Councillors. With that enforcement of non-existent judgment, they almost put Osun into state of anarchy.
“However, Governor Adeleke, being a man of peace and of the people, saw this coming, hence the directive given to the duly elected local government chairmen in the state not to go to their various LG secretariats after the swearing in ceremony. Had Governor Adeleke not have been proactive and guided by great wisdom, only God would have known what the APC could have turned the state into while carrying out their Awada Keri keri in the various LG secretariats of our dear state,” he said.
