Our Lives Are In Danger
- Ede APC Leaders Send SOS To Osun CP
Sequel to the upturning of the election of Governor Ademola Adeleke in favour of Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola by the Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal last Friday in Osogbo, the state capital, the militia wing of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have burnt down the APC secretariat in the Ede-South and also destroyed the party's secretariat in the Ede-North Local Government Council Areas of the state respectively.
Some of the leaders of the APC in Ede disclosed that the PDP political hoodlums who went on rampage shortly after the delivery of the judgement on Friday carried out their onslaught on the two APC secretariats that were both located in Ede township.
During the melee, it was gathered that some members of the APC sustained various degrees of injuries inflicted on them by the rampaging PDP thugs who destroyed the office of the party, vehicles, motorcycles and other valuable office equipment.
Some of the leaders of the APC in Ede disclosed that their sin before the PDP political thugs was their effrontery to organize prayers in the local governments' party secretariats shortly after the judgement was given.
The APC leaders in Ede stated that the PDP hitmen are threatening to attack and kill some of them in the town and possibly destroying and burning down of their houses.
They enjoined the state commissioner of police and other sister security agencies in the state to come to the aid of the APC members and leaders in Ede who are being hunted by the PDP thugs like animals in the bush.
The worried APC leaders in Ede tasked the state Commissioner of Police to, without further delay, use the professional instrumentality of his office to investigate, arrest and prosecute the foot soldiers and the mastermind of the needless political attack on their members andp property.
According to them, it is disheartening and worrisome to observe that there are too many illegal firearms and ammunitions in the state which makes death to be the cheapest since the inauguration of the recently sacked PDP government in the state.
For instance, it is a common feature along the streets of Ede in particular and the state in general, to see dangerous political thugs dangling and brandishing new cutlasses and guns all in the name of enjoyment of amity with the state government.
According to the APC leaders in Ede-North and Ede-South, "how and when has it become an offence for a person to exercise his freedom of association and movement which are fundamental rights under the extant constitution of Nigeria?
"Why must it be an anathema for an indigene of Ede to be a member of another political party other than the PDP simply because the governorship candidate of the party is of the PDP extraction who hails from the ancient town of Ede?
"There are PDP members in Iragbiji, the native town of Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola and there have not been incidents of persecution, attack, maiming and killing of the PDP members and leaders in the ancient town", the APC leaders in Ede stated.
They also disclosed that quite a sizeable number of the APC members have been chased out of the town by the rampaging PDP thugs who were brandishing new guns, ammunitions and cutlasses.
The APC leaders cautioned the embattled state Governor Ademola Adeleke and his co-travellers to call their funded agents of death to order as no political party has a monopoly of violence.
They wondered if the PDP leaders in the ancient town are not bothered and worried that the hitherto peaceful town is now occupying a centre stage of reportorial for negative reasons.
The concerned APC leaders in Ede questioned rhetorically why it has been pretty impossible for the disgruntled political gladiators in the town to turn over a new leaf and embrace an unconditional peace and love for the fellow human beings in the community?
They reminded Adeleke that people write their history everyday and its content is dependent on how everyone in the position of authority at any particular point in time chooses to be part of history.
According to the disenchanted Ede APC leaders, a king whose reign is peaceful and another one whose reign is full of cataclysm will both not be forgotten in history.
All what we are clamouring for in Ede is playing of politics of tolerance as opposed to that of coercion, victimisation and violence.
e-SIGNED:
Dr. Mufutao Oyewale
Chairman Apex Leaders
Ambassador. ADEJARE BELLO
Apex leader Ede
Dr. Ismail Saka LAYONU SAN
Apex leader Ede
Hon. Taiwo Ojo
Apex leader Chairman Ede South
Alh. Ismail Adeniyi secretary Apex Leader Ede North .
Hon. Chief. Kamorudeen Debo Akanbi
Apex leader Ede North
Prince. Omoyele Alabi
Apex leader Ede North.
Hon. Johnson Ojo
Apex leader Ede South
Prof. Yinusa OLALEKAN former commissioner
Alhaja Latifat GIWA. Former commissioner.
Prof. Siyan Oyewoso
Apex leader Ede South
Hon. Muraina Adekoyejo
Apex leader Ede South
Dr. Tiamiyu Bello
Apex leader Ede North
Alhaja Serifat Adekanmi
Apex leader Ede South
Alh. Sikiru Babson
Apex leader Ede North
Elder Deji Agboola
former Council Chairman Ede South
Hon. Rafiu Fatoki
Former Council Chairman Ede East
Hon. Akeem Adewolu
Former Chairman Ede North Area council.
Alh. Abdulwasiu Adesoji ADEDEJI
State Officer
Comr. Imran Mojeed Adekunle.
State Officer
Alh. LAWAL Nurein Alagunmu
State Officer
Alh. Rasaq Adesina
APC Local Chairman Ede North.
Alh. Oluogun Kazeem
APC Local Chairman Ede South
Hon. Adeyemi Eliot
Hon. Kola Salami
Hon. Fatai Olaleye
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