The Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State has alleged the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, of planning to assassinate the governor of the state, Senator Ademola Adeleke.
The PDP said the IGP’s deliberate deployment of Special Forces to escort the sacked APC chairmen into local government secretariats on Wednesday morning was a coup and disobedience to the order of the state governor.
The party warned Egbetokun not to be a tool in the hands of the opposition All Progressives Congress in their desperation to get rid of Adeleke.
The PDP chairman in Osun, Sunday Bisi, made the allegations while addressing journalists at the party secretariat in Osogbo, on Wednesday.
Bisi said what was playing out in the state was an attempt by the IGP and the APC to prevent the local government election slated for Saturday, February 22, from holding.
He, however, said the party and the people of the state would not succumb to any form of intimidation, adding that the election will hold as stipulated.
He said, “Mr Egbetokun’s deliberate deployment of Special Forces under him to escort some miscreants into the local government councils in the state was nothing but a blatant coup and obviously one out of the many mapped out plans to assassinate the Governor of our dear State, Senator Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke, whose instruction to restore peace and order as the Chief Security Officer of Osun State, was flagrantly violated by Mr Egbetokun.
“The whole world must warn and prevail on Mr. Kayode Egbetokun to desist from being an enabler of orchestrated attempts on the life of our Governor. These plans, we want to emphasize, have been on the cards of the APC in Osun State since the good people of Osun State voted them out of office in 2022.
“The desperation to get rid of Mr Governor and take over the State through whatever means possible has been rife and clear enough since Apc was shut out of government in Osun.
“One wonders how and why the IGP sidetracked the Governor of Osun State before taking a stand on the copies of the judgment at his disposal on the disputes over local government administration in the state.”
He added, “The stark disobedience to the laid down protocol and rules by the IGP Egbetokun, especially as it concerned security situation in the state, was not only suspicious but apparently dangerous.
“The motive of security reinforcement if required and as discussed with Egbetokun by His Excellency, the Governor, has not only been betrayed by Mr Egbetokun but has also set dangerous routes for trouble makers to carry out their dastardly act even when the state has just lost almost 10 of our sons and daughters to violent confrontations in less than 48hours ago.
“We are not unaware that the desperation of Mr Egbetokun and his Apc cohorts is ultimately to prevent the local government election from holding in Osun State on Saturday, 22nd of February 2025. We are aware that Mr Egbetokun is ready to bend all the rules, aid and abet killings of Osun people, especially members of the ruling PDP as we witnessed on Monday, but the IGP should be told in clear terms that he will fail.
“We want to urge the general public, particularly voters in Osun state, not to succumb to the tactics of the APC and their allies in security outfits as the election billed for Saturday, February 22, 2025, will hold without failing”.
