Thirty persons’ blood is said to be on the hands of Osun State governor, Ademola Adeleke.
The allegation was thrown at the dancing governor from likely quarter, Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress.
The latter’s acting chairman, Mr. Tajudeen Lawal, gave this unpleasant account in a statement on Tuesday in response to Adeleke’s olive branch remark on Arise News Television’s breakfast programme, The Morning Show, on Monday.
“Immediately after the news of the Appeal Court (judgement), I tried to reach out, I called him – the former Governor Oyetola – to let us forge ahead to move Osun forward, but up till now, he has not called me to congratulate me and I’m still hoping that he will do that because we don’t have any other state than Osun State here. So, I’m ready, my hands are open, let’s come together and move Osun State forward,” the governor told his interviewers.
Responding by the statement, Lawal said Adeleke was ill-qualified for his predecessor, Gboyega Oyetola’s friendliness, accusing the governor of killing 30 APC members on his way to assume the exalted position.
“I don’t understand the thinking of Adeleke. Is he saying that Oyetola should congratulate him for killing no fewer than 30 members and supporters of our party to secure his pyrrhic victory?
“If Adeleke has conscience, does he want to pretend that he wasn’t aware that his party, the PDP, turned Osun State to a killing field before, during and after the elections, the results of which he is dubiously flaunting to feign non-existing popularity and acceptability?
“Adeleke will have to wait till eternity for a congratulatory message from Oyetola whom he robbed in the daylight during the elections that were won for him by the militia wing of his administration. If congratulatory messages are being sold in an open market, it is not a hyperbolic expression to state that our candidate, Oyetola, cannot extend one to you for one Kobo,” the APC chair remarked.
