The crisis rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC in Osun State is getting messier as the factional group of the party loyal to the minister of interior named “The Osun Progressives “TOP has alleged that the Ileri Oluwa group loyal to the state Governor, Mr Adegboyega Oyetola sent thugs to disrupt their meeting.
Addressing Journalists in Osogbo, Chairman of the “TOP” faction, Elder Adebiyi Adelowo alleged such was with an intention to eliminate leaders of the group.
Elder Adelowo told journalists that some thugs attacked the venue of their weekly meeting at the ‘Aregbe’ area of the state capital, shooting sporadically and causing a commotion in the area.
According to him, there was no casualty, but members of the group were wounded, adding that officials of Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, that usually provide security for the group were on official assignment outside the state.
The TOP leader called on President Mohammadu Buhari to urgently intervene in the party’s internal crisis.
In a reaction, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Adegboyega Oyetola, Mr Ismail Omipidan, described the allegation as false maintaining that the TOP factional group only acted a script they already prepared.
Mr Omipidan wondered that, If by the admission of Elder Adelowo, that personnel of NSCDC had always provided security cover for them, then on whose authority were they doing it then and who ordered their withdrawal during the said meeting?
He submitted that Governor Adegboyega Oyetola was not a violent man and would never support any violence in whatever form, urging the former governor and current Interior minister, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, to disown Adebiyi before he rubbishes his good office.
The Governor’s spokesman urged concerned security agencies in the State to watch the TOP closely, as they appear to be up to something sinister.
Adenitan Akinola
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