The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has cautioned the Peoples Democratic Party’s PDP-led Governor Ademola Adeleke’s administration in the state that nothing untoward must happen to Alhaji Shuaib Oyedokun, former National Vice-Chairman of the PDP and ex-member of the party’s Board of Trustees (BOT) who defected into the APC with fanfare few days ago.
The PDP leaders and Gov. Adeleke, who are apparently pained and confused over the defection of Alhaji Oyedokun into the APC, had alleged the experienced politician who will soon become a nonagenarian of planning a murder plot against the state governor in a statement issued on Tuesday by the state Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Mr Kolapo Alimi.
Commenting on the development, the Osun State APC chairman, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, in a statement issued by the party’s Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi, on Tuesday, cautioned that nothing untoward should happen to Baba Shuaib Oyedokun.
Lawal specifically charged the Inspector-General of Police to prevail on the state Commissioner of Police to intensify the absolute security of life and property of Pa Oyedokun who has now become an imaginary overnight threat to Governor Adeleke and his cohorts simply because the old and experienced politician had just crossed over to the APC from the PDP which is a widely acknowledged nest of killers.
The state APC chairman noted that there was nothing suggestive of the desire of Papa Oyedokun to promote or foment violence or crisis in the interview of the political sage in a Yoruba radio programme which was monitored in Osogbo on Monday.
Lawal disclosed that it was the truth embedded in the context of the interview which was the cause of the perpetual incontinence being experienced by Governor Adeleke and his political co-travellers.
In the words of the Osun State APC chairman: “How on earth would someone who has his thinking faculty intact adduce the promotion of crisis or violence to a man whose 90th birthday anniversary is knocking?
“What Baba Oyedokun who is a realist was saying was that Governor Adeleke and his goons should not repeat the slaughtering of the APC members and supporters just the way no fewer than 30 of such APC stakeholders were killed by the PDP thugs in order to rig the last series of elections in the state for Governor Adeleke and all other PDP candidates.
“I know Governor Adeleke has blood running in his veins which must be the reason for him to expressly admit that the victories that himself and other elected political functionaries are flaunting were achieved by stepping on the blood of the innocent members and supporters of the APC.
“Governor Adeleke and his co-travellers should stop ranting and come to terms with the reality that his lack of administrative- know-how has been the bane of his government which will irredeemably see him out of office with ignominy in 2026.
“Though there’s a common aphorism that one cannot give what he does not possess, our advice for you as a party is to leave Pa Shuaib Oyedokun alone and face proper governance instead of being a common patron to pubs in Lagos and Abuja where you dance away your time to the detriment of the development of the state”, Lawal cautioned.
