The All Progressives Congress has urged the Police and other security agencies in the state of Osun to ignore the false alarm raised by the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
After the Osun Election Tribunal declared the governorship candidate in the September 22 election, Senator Ademola Adeleke, the PDP alleged that APC was making attempts to attack members of the party.
But in a swift reaction on Saturday by the APC director of publicity, Barr Kunle Oyatomi
PDP is planning sinister plans.
According to the governing party, “the notorious gang of violent acts in Osun are the PDP thugs, who when they break loose on streets and localities leave a trail of blood and tears. These people have been notorious for violence since 2003”, the APC claimed.
The APC said that the opposition party was cynically disclosing its own plans against the people of the state.
The statement Oyatomi wrote reads, “the party (APC) took exception to what it called, “the Motor Park mentality that appears to dominate the thought process of the PDP leadership in Osun”.
“Whatever violence the PDP leadership is falsely accusing the APC of plotting is actually what the PDP itself must have worked out to unleash on the peaceful people of Osun, consistent with that party’s own trademark.”
The APC argued that it had no incentive for violence over the verdict of the Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja because there are “credible options for redress in both the court of appeal and the Supreme Court.
“Our party is intelligent enough to know that it remains in power at Abere until the Supreme Court decides otherwise. So, why should we be planning violence against our own people?”, the APC asked.
“Those who could be prone to violence out of frustration that they cannot be in power in spite of their Pyrrhic Victory at the Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja on Friday are the PDP and its congregation of murderous thugs that litter the state.
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“We therefore urge the Police and other security agencies to be on the red alert and keep a close watch on the PDP because they are in a state of heightened frustration that could burst into violence anytime.
“Their false alarm is a strategic ploy to divert attention of security operatives while they run amoc with violence and mayhem all over the state.
“The Police know who the violent ones in Osun are; and the PDP can’t fool them”, the statement concluded.
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