Insecurity: Osun APC Blasts Adeleke Over Kidnappings

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has called on the state governor, Ademola Adeleke to stop treating with levity security issues affecting the state.

This is as the party noted that it was worried by the high level of insecurity of the inhabitants of Osun State before, during and after the general elections in the country.

Osun has been generally referred to as one of the most peaceful states in the country until before the 2023 general elections where pockets of violent attacks and incidences were recorded.

The most affected part of the state where such pockets of violence were recorded was the Osun East Senatorial District comprising the Ife and Ijesa zones.

The party in a statement by its acting chairman, Tajudeen Lawal on Monday also recalled that no fewer than 30 members of the opposition APC members were allegedly killed by thugs sponsored by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

While insisting that Governor Adeleke is not getting it right in the area of securing the lives and properties of residents, the party lamented that last Wednesday and Friday, two incidents of kidnapping, along Osogbo-Ikirun road, were reported in which the victims were said to be in captivity of the kidnappers as at the time of making this statement with the exception of a woman whose release was secured by the police on Sunday.

"A caring governor would have either condemned the two incidents of the kidnapping of the people in his territory within three days interval or rushed back from Abuja as the number one security officer of the state.

"It is saddening that as I speak, Governor Adeleke has no comment of condemnation to his credit on all the murder incidents that happened so far in his four-month-old administration.

"When he was attacked recently by PDP thugs in Ikirun, the governor denied it. But the thugs have been arraigned in the court thereby justifying our claim that thuggery activities have been on the rise since Senator Ademola Adeleke became the governor.

"His handling of Osun affairs has shown that governance of a state is not a tea party which is the reason why it is not the best arrangement to make the state a laboratory for greenhorns in the management of the affairs of human beings and resources," the acting state APC chairman hinted.

Lawal explained that it was sad that the governor has not deemed it fit to say a word on the kidnapping incidents and added that the security of lives and property of the people is nothing to write home about under Adeleke as more lives have been lost in the state since his inauguration as Osun governor.

The Osun State Police Command has stated that a female passenger among those abducted on Friday along the Osogbo-Ikirun Road has been released.

Yemisi Opalola, the Osun Police Command spokesperson also disclosed that efforts to secure the release of the other abductees have commenced.

In the early hours of Friday, a commercial vehicle travelling on the Osogbo-Ikirun Road was attacked and passengers were abducted except the driver who managed to escape.