By CHARLES IWUOHA

Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, on Tueasday raised the alarm over an alleged murder plot, fingering a chieftain of the federal-ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and calling for his interrogation.

In a statement issued in Osogbo and signed by the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment,

Oluomo Kolapo Alimi, the Osun Government called on President Bola Tinubu, the Inspector General of Police and other stakeholders “to urgently summon a former Peoples Democratic party, PDP, stalwart in Osun State, Alhaji Shuaibu Oyedokun for questioning over his recent comments on Governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke and family.”

Alimi in the statement stated that Oyedokun in a recent radio programme advised Governor Adeleke not to by any means contest for a second term in office if he does not want an act of murder “to be carried out and be hanged on the Governor and the highly respected Adeleke family of Ede where the Governor hails from.”

The statement reads in part: “During a live Yoruba radio programme on Rave F.M, Osogbo, tagged Oro Oselu, on Monday, the 20th of May, 2024, Alhaji Oyedokun threw cautions to the wind in many of his politically uncultured and morally unguarded remarks while on the programme.

“The Osun State Government viewed such comments as not only inciting but the highest form of desperation from Oyedokun and the entire Osun APC he defected to recently.”

Alimi called for an immediate summon and eventual questioning of Oyedokun by the law enforcement agencies to explain why the right of Governor Adeleke to contest for a second term should warrant shedding of innocent blood and hanging it on the neck of the Governor and his family.

According to him, “The security agencies need to unravel what plots or scheming bordering on criminality Pa Oyedokun is privy to or hatching alone or in partnership with his new party. This is necessary to forestall maturing of a hideous agenda capable of plunging Osun into crisis ahead of 2026 polls, the statement further reiterated.

“As a Government, we view Alhaji Shuaib Oyedokun’s utterances throughout the duration of the Oro Oselu radio programme of Monday, 20th of May, 2024 as totally incongruous, callous, dirty, unwarranted and nauseating to say the least.

“Alhaji Shuaib Oyedokun's comments were not just within the boundaries of exercising his fundamental human rights of freedom of speech, they are at best morally awkward, debasing and a threat cum invitation for mayhem.

“Conclusively, as a Government, we are of the view that, whatever happens, bordering on the security of lives and property of the people of Osun State, before, during and after the coming Governorship election or any other election in our dear state, the likes of Oyedokun and APC members should be held accountable.”

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