Kayode Egbetokun, the Inspector General of Police, has been accused of conspiring with the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) to assassinate Ademola Adeleke, the governor of the state, in the midst of the crisis that has surrounded the control of local government areas in the state.
This accusation was made by the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State. Egbetokun allegedly provided sacked local government chairmen under the APC platform with security cover to take control of councils, according to Sunday Bisi, the chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), who was speaking at a press conference at the PDP secretariat in Osogbo.
Bisi claimed that this development was part of a plot to get rid of Governor Adeleke.
A further assertion made by the chairman of the PDP was that Egbetokun had taken a stance on the copies of the judgement that were available to him regarding the disagreements regarding the administration of local government in the state.
The election that is scheduled to take place on Saturday, February 22, 2025, will go place without fail, according to Bisi, who reaffirmed that the upcoming poll will take place.
He also advised voters in the state to resist giving in to the strategies employed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its supporters in security groups.
Part of the statement read, “As we are all aware, Osun State has been thrown into the cloudy side of the news in recent days.
“No thanks to the surreptitious activities of the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to destabilise the state with orchestrated violence obviously hatched in active connivance with his office and the opposition All Progressives Congress, banking on a non-existent court order as being brandished by the defeated APC in the state.
“Mr Egbetokun’s deliberate deployment of Special Forces under him to escort some miscreants into the local government councils in the state was nothing but a blatant coup and obviously one out of the many mapped-out plans to assassinate the Governor of our dear State, Senator Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke, whose instruction to restore peace and order as the Chief Security Officer of Osun State was flagrantly violated by Mr Egbetokun.
“The whole world must warn and prevail on Mr Kayode Egbetokun to desist from being an enabler of orchestrated attempts on the life of our Governor.
“These plans, we want to emphasize, have been on the cards of the APC in Osun State since the good people of Osun State voted them out of office in 2022.
“The desperation to get rid of Mr Governor and take over the State through whatever means possible has been rife and clear enough since the APC was shut out of government in Osun.
“The motive of security reinforcement, if required and as discussed with Egbetokun by His Excellency, the Governor, has not only been betrayed by Mr Egbetokun but has also set dangerous routes for troublemakers to carry out their dastardly act even when the state has just lost almost 10 of our sons and daughters to violent confrontations in less than 48 hours ago.
“We are not unaware that the desperation of Mr Egbetokun and his APC cohorts is ultimately to prevent the local government election from holding in Osun State on Saturday, 22nd of February 2025.
“We are aware that Mr Egbetokun is ready to bend all the rules, aid and abet the killings of Osun people, especially members of the ruling PDP as we witnessed on Monday, but the IGP should be told in clear terms that he will failover.”
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