The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Osun State Chapter, has sympathised with the Osun State Chapter of Okada Riders Association and other Traders groups who went on peaceful demonstration in Osogbo on Tuesday over what they called “outrageous levies in the state.”

The State Chairman of PDP in Osun State, Hon. Olasoji Adagunodo, while responding to questions from reporters over the peaceful protests of the traders Associations said “it is very unfortunate that the government of APC in the State allowed the tax situation to escalate, fester and degenerate to the level it is now.”

Adagunodo said his party decided “to sympathise with the Okada and other traders Unionists because they didn’t vote for APC and Oyetola on September 22nd, 2018. Their mandate which was given to PDP and its candidate, Senator Nurudeen Ademola Adeleke in the election was stolen electoral robbers.”

Adagunodo, however, appealed to the Okada riders and other traders associations to remain peaceful in their agitations, advising that they should be patient and keep praying for PDP and Senator Adeleke's victory at the Supreme Court to get back his God-given mandate.

He assured them that all outrageous and obnoxious levies and policies would be reviewed to bring succour, not only to Okada riders and traders but to all sections of the state plagued by inhuman anti-people policies of the Oyetola’s interim administration.

Adagunodo thanked the people of the state for voting PDP in the September 22 poll before election riggers snatched victory at gun point, assuring that “the court is the last hope of the poor and we know Supreme Court justices will restore the stolen mandate to the mandate holder, Senator Adeleke.”

Adagunodo concluded by noting: “Our party, PDP is still assuring the people of Osun State that their sufferings will soon come to an end immediately Senator Adeleke is sworn in as the validly elected governor of the state.”

Members of the protesting association had chanted unprintable names against the APC and Oyetola’s government with one of their leaders repeating as follows: “It is unfortunate that since these Lagos people came to Osun, it has been different levies and taxations under different titles. Majority of the so-called levies are duplication with no commensurable income to justify what the government had taken from the people of the state.”

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