Aregbesola Accuses Minister For Defence For Planning Assassination In Osun
Ahead of the 9 August, 2014, governorship election in Osun State, the incumbent Governor Rauf Aregbesola has accused Nigeria’s minister of state for defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, and the Police Affairs Minister, Jelil Adesiyan, of planning to assassinate two members of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
According to P.M NEWS, the governor, who is the candidate of APC for the Osun guber polls, made this statement on Wednesday, August 6, 2014, during the launch of the students’ smart identity card at Salvation Army Middle School in Alekuwodo.
It was reported that Obanikoro and Adesiyan have instructed security personnel to shoot and kill two of APC members.
Aregbesola warned that should anything happen to any member of the APC before, during and after the upcoming governorship election in Osun, Obanikoro should be held responsible.
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Aregbesola wondered why Obanikoro was in Osun and warned that although members of APC have been told to be law-abiding, if pushed to the wall, they will react.
He said: “How could a party like the PDP be this desperate, Obanikoro with Jelili Adesiyan told the security agents that by the time two members of the APC are shot at and killed by the police, other members will learn from it, and with that the stiff resistance of APC will be destroyed."
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Aregbesola, however, called on security agents to play by the rules, saying with what happened at the Nelson Mandela Freedom Park Wednesday morning, where people who were supposed to campaign for APC were turned back by security agents, while same security agents allowed Peoples Democratic Party's (PDP) campaign in Alekuwodo in Osogbo, should not repeat itself.
“We want to use this medium to appeal to our security agencies not to allow themselves to be used by these PDP candidate and the two ministers whose party before this administration had been terrorising the good people of our state.
“I am using this medium to tell the security operatives that Osun people are law-abiding people, they have always been contributing to the payment of your salaries and you are not supposed to harass them with the guns which were bought for you with tax money,” Aregbesola said.
On the smart identity card for students, the governor said that information Communication Technology is among other promising paths his administration has chosen to deliver in the march towards realising the state’s development dream.
With the launch of this smart identity card, Osun becomes the first state in Nigeria to provide its students with a card that contains all the information that may be required on the student.
Meanwhile, it would be recalled that two people had in July lost their lives as a result of a clash between supporters of the APC and the PDP in Ilesha area of Osun.
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Political analysts have warned of election crisis in Osun because of the tension brewing among supporters of the major political parties in the state ahead of the elections.
President Goodluck Jonathan, while reacting to the presence of heavily-armed security agents in Osun during his visit to the state at the weekend to campaign for PDP's candidate, Sen. Iyiola Omisore, had stated that the soldiers were needed to ensure a free and fair election in Osun.
This has not stopped the APC from accusing the heavy deployment of armed security officials in Osun, as a ploy by the PDP to intimidate the people of Osun in other to rig the polls.
Source: Legit.ng
