Supporters of Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola under the aegis of The Osun Progressives (TOP) faction of All Progressives Congress (APC), have urged the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, to redeploy the Commissioner of Police, CP Olawale Olokode from the state over alleged compromise.
Some gunmen had on Thursday attacked the Aregbesola’s campaign office amid the ongoing political supremacy battle between him and his successor, incumbent Governor Gboyega Oyetola.
Reports said the hoodlums were seen shooting sporadically at the building popularly known as Oranmiyan House, located along Gbongan-Ibadan road in Osogbo.
According to NAN, people have accused Governor Oyetola of being behind the merciless attack.
But the governor who condemned the attack denied and dissociated itself from the attack
In a statement, Funke Egbemode, the State commissioner for information and civic orientation said , “The accusation that the government of Mr Adegboyega Oyetola had anything to do with Thursday’s attack on the Oranmiyan House is sad and laughable.
“The government of Osun state condemns Thursday’s attack on Oranmiyan House because it is nothing close to what we represent as a people.”
However, the factional Chairman of APC, Hon. Rasaq Salinsile during a press conference held on Friday accused CP Olokode of taking sides in the ongoing crisis in the party.
Salinsile accused Olokode of aiding a series of politically motivated attacks on some of them who are members of The Osun Progressives (TOP).
He claimed that Olokode had refused to act on a series of petitions and security information sent to him prior to the politically motivated attacks on Aregbesola’s loyalists.
Salinsile said: “The worst is that we are being punished by the Commissioner of Police, Wale Olokode whenever such attack happens. This evil occurrence of punishing us for offence committed against us by the police has been the order of the day.”
“We, therefore, call on Olokode to ask the Inspector General of Police to post him out of Osun. We plead with the Inspector General of Police to please expeditiously transfer Olokode from Osun with immediate effect.
Meanwhile, CP Olokode has vowed that perpetrators will be brought to book while directing the Command Tactical Teams to embark on a rigorous and intensive investigation to fish out the perpetrators in order to face the full wrath of the law.
A statement by the police spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola disclosed that “ CP Olokode has visited the campaign office to conduct on the spot assessment, and assured that the police will tackle any form of crime in the state.”
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