APC to Makinde: We Don’t Need Your Advice on Osun’s Self-induced Political Crisis

•Says gov’s directive to chairmen to avoid secretariats deceitful

•Adeleke sustaining peace despite machinations of anarchists, says spokesperson

Yinka Kolawole in Osogbo

Osun State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has advised the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, to stop referring to the Osun chapter of APC as the aggressor in the lingering political impasse in the state, which has consumed about 10 persons from the attacks by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) supporters across the state.

Makinde was in Osun State last Sunday to witness the swearing-in of the council chairmen by his Osun State counterpart.

A statement by Osun State APC Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi, said, “If we may ask, where was Governor Makinde when his political soulmate in the hitherto state of the virtuous used the sanctity of the Osun State Government House to incite the members of his party to go all out and attack our members and chieftains?

“Where was Governor Makinde when the political hoodlums of his party killed through gun shots the newly reinstated chairman of our party in Ikire, Hon Remi Abass, Irewole Local Government Council Area, apparently emboldened by the earlier incitement by Governor Adeleke?

“Where was Governor Makinde when the thugs loyal to the PDP killed one person in Irojo, Ilesa, Osun State, during the illegal shambolic local government council election purportedly held by his brother on Saturday?

“Governor Makinde should tell the right-thinking Nigerians why he lost his voice when daredevil thugs traceable to the violent thugs of his party almost killed a chieftain of our party, Engr Remi Omowaye, who is a serving Executive Director at the Federal Housing Authority and Mr Tobi Famurewa in Ilesa few days ago?

“We want to make it clear to Governor Makinde that he is not in a better position to teach the leadership of the APC how to prosecute the ongoing efforts of our duly elected chairmen and councillors how to reap the benefit of the Court of Appeal judgement, Akure Division, given on the 10th of February, 2025.”

Meanwhile, spokesperson of the Osun State governor, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, said his principal had proven to be a crisis manager with an eye on public peace and prosperity, hence, the sustenance of peace across the state despite the evil plot of anarchists within the opposition.

Rasheed described as “libellous and defamatory” allegation of importing thugs levelled against top functionaries of the administration by children of anarchy as “a baseless concoction without any iota of truth”.

Rasheed said, “From the beginning of the face off, the state governor, being a security expert and a criminologist, had deployed his skills of conflict resolution to sustain peace even with the worst of provocations.

“The mapping of the entire state revealed that the opposition APC was mainly interested in burning the state down and destroying the elected political structures. Mr Governor smartly denied the APC the fuel for its arsonist plan.”