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Diversionary Tactics Can’t Prevent Omirin From Police Arrest, Prosecution Over Killing Of APC Member
- Osun APC Tells Sunday Bisi

LAST UPDATED FEB 19, 2023

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has frowned at the diversionary tactics of the Director-General of the Atiku-Okowa Campaign Council, Honourable Sunday Bisi, aimed at scuttling the call for the immediate arrest of the PDP House of Representatives candidate for Ijesa-South Federal Constituency, Hon Sanya Omirin, over the killing of a member of the APC in Ilesa, Ebenezer Alaro, last Friday.


Alaro was killed in front of his father’s house by a notorious PDP thug called ‘Bongo’ in the community, on the instruction of Omirin under an excuse that his campaign billboards and late father’s house were destroyed by some people.


The D-G of Atiku-Okowa Campaign Council in the state, who apparently had just woken up from his slumber after three days that a promising native of his town was needlessly slaughtered like a ram by one of the thugs loyal to his party on the instruction of Omirin, has the effrontery and shameless audacity to be making an allegation of importation of thugs into Ijesaland against some APC leaders.

Worried by the absolute lack of empathy for the killing of the APC member by the PDP thug, the state acting chairman of the APC, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, in a statement issued by the party’s Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi, in Osogbo, the state capital, today, said it was a pity that a character like Bisi could resort to the use of conjecture and falsehood to drive his political point.


Lawal stated that with the self-confession of Sunday Bisi that he had been witnessing the importation of hoodlums into his community for some time without reporting same to the police makes him pointedly culpable for playing a dirty politics with genuine peace in Ijesaland.


The Acting APC chairman told Sunday Bisi point-blank that his allegation of the APC’s importation of thugs from various states into Ijesaland was frivolous, a fabrication which was only existing in the imagination of the PDP elements and mullish devotees.

Lawal stated that in order to prove that Sunday Bisi’s integrity is not in doubt, he should, without further delay, mention the locations of the imaginary thugs whose phoney existence he is selling to the unsuspecting members of the public.

In Sooko’s words: “How can an ultimatum of 72 hours of relocation be given to hoodlums by a political party leader who professes to be serious and acting in the interest of his people?

“The statement made by Sunday Bisi in that regard was only diversionary which was intended for the police to shift their attention on the arrest and prosecution of Omirin and his goons over the killing of our member, Alaro, last Friday”, Lawal explained.

He reminded the D-G of Atiku-Okowa Campaign Council in Osun State that the people are now wiser and that he should advise Omirin to go and answer the police invitation over the criminal case hanging on his neck.

Lawal who hinted Bisi and Omirin not to expect any magic for their party during the forthcoming general elections stated that the people of Ijesaland would emphatically reject PDP because they are in the know of the fact that it’s the PDP elements in their midst that prevented the take-off of the Ilesa University through needless playing of dirty politics with it, hence their resorting to violence and harrasment of APC members would not save them from the impending debilitating defeat at the poll.