DAILY POST
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State has raised the alarm over a campaign of violence which is being allegedly unleashed on its members in the state.
The party also alleged that the violence is being perpetrated against residents of the state by the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
In a statement signed by Akindele Adekunle, the caretaker chairman of the party in the state, he disclosed that the party had to raise the alarm based on the latest attack on one Wasiu Adeleke, a PDP member in Ila local government on Saturday afternoon.
According to the statement, “The assailants, who are sponsored by Obawale Adewale, the APC House of Representatives candidate for Ila/Boluwaduro/Ifedayo and Lateef Adebisi Jayeola, the APC candidate for Ila State Constituency, swooped on armless member at the dead of the night, inflicting on him serious injuries.
“This attack, as with those before it, was part of a calculated plot to intimidate and scare our members and supporters ahead of the conduct of the general election. The APC are afraid of the resolve of Osun people at the poll, and want to deploy violence to make it impossible for voters to come out and exercise their franchise.
“Such is the level of desperation of the APC whose record of misrule has caused them enormous disinterest and undisguised disaffection by Nigerians . But we must warn that there is limit to how much of this barbarity Osun people can take, and will resist this attempt to cow them.”
The party also charged the Police and other security agencies in the state to be alive to their responsibilities in ensuring the safety of its members and Osun people as a whole.
“By now and with all the warmings by our great party, it is expected that security agencies would have risen up to their responsibility and go after the hoodlums imported into the state by the APC.
“Failure of the security agencies to track and apprehend criminals terrorising Osun people, particularly PDP members in the guise of election, will be devastating for the peace of the state as people will be forced to defend themselves from these mindless attacks. This is not something anyone will want and for that, the security agencies in the state should tame APC thugs.”
The party also called on residents to be at alert and stay alive to the security of their immediate community.
Reacting, the Osun APC Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi, explained that the Osun PDP is judging others by their own standard.
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