The Osun State Government has condemned the National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Ajibola Basiru, for advocating a State of Emergency in the state over the ongoing dispute regarding local government administration.
Basiru had earlier warned Governor Ademola Adeleke to learn from the crisis in Rivers State, suggesting that a State of Emergency might be necessary due to resistance against the reinstatement of council chairmen.
However, Osun Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Kolapo Alimi, dismissed Basiru’s remarks as “callous, self-centered, and unlawful.”
He argued that the political situations in Rivers and Osun were not comparable, warning Basiru and the APC against destabilizing the state’s peace in a bid to reclaim power.
Alimi criticized his call for federal intervention, insisting that Osun remains stable and does not warrant emergency measures.
“While the call, no doubt stems from a demented mind as is the case with Senator Ajibola Basiru is, it will be recalled that the same Basiru had in the not too recent past made a similar call when I engaged him on a national television station on the Yes/No local government chairmen in Osun state.
“It must, however, be emphasized that not only Basiru alone holds this senseless and obnoxious impression but the entire APC cohorts and their members in Osun State, who on a daily basis, are scheming for one mischievous device or the other in order to come through the backdoor to take the reigns of governance in Osun State but by the grace of God and with the support of the people of Osun State for the administration of Ademola Adeleke, all the evil machinations against the people oriented government of Ademola Adeleke will not see the light of the day.
“Furthermore, we call on our President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to see through the antics of people like Ajibola Basiru, a rejected and frustrated politician and his already rejected APC apologists in Osun, by rejecting the wicked and baseless call for the declaration of the state of emergency in Osun.”
The Nation
