TUNDE ADELEKE, Osogbo
The Osun State government on Wednesday lambasted the the National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Ajibola Basiru, over his call for a state of emergency in the state over the local government crisis in the state.
Daily Champion reports that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu declared a state of emergency in Rivers State on Tuesday, suspending Governor Sim Fubura due to the political crisis in the state.
In his reaction the APC National Secretary, Senator Ajibola Basiru, called for a state of emergency to be declared in Osun State as well, citing the Local Government crisis in the state
Describing the call as “callous, self-centered, and unlawful”, the state government in a statement issued by the the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Kolapo Alimi, noted that there is a world of difference between the current political development in Rivers and Osun when placed side by side.
He however, warned Senator Basiru and the APC not to destabilise the peace of the state in an attempt to reclaim power.
The statement reads in part “While the call, no doubt stems from a demented mind as is the case with Senator Ajibola Basiru is, it will be recalled that the same Basiru had in the not too recent past made a similar call when I engaged him on a national television station on the Yes/No local government chairmen in Osun state.
“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.
“For any political observers in Osun state, it’s very clear that Osun APC lacks the popularity, political acceptance and sagacity to face and defeat Ademola 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 Councilors. With that enforcement of non-existence judgment, they almost put Osun into state of anarchy.”
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