Osun PDP Urges Police To Close Down APC’s Secretariat Over Violence
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State has called on the Nigeria Police Force and other security services to shut down the All Progressives Congress (APC) state secretariat after violence occurred during the appeal committee seating on Saturday.
The PDP claims that the APC secretariat has devolved into a battleground rather than a site of party administration, and that the call is necessary to de-escalate the violence and uproar surrounding the APC ward congress and appeal.
The party made the demand in a press statement released on Sunday in Osogbo by its State Publicity Secretary, Ayodeji Areola, who noted that the PDP was worried by the course of events in the APC, where a ward congress turned unmanageable with attendant violence.
The party indicated that it is not shocked because democratic administration of party matters is alien to the APC, which has led to the state being characterized as the nation’s capital of negativity as a result of a ward congress devolving to a dangerous level.
The party expressed displeasure with the state governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, for failing to effectively handle APC supporters, saying that the people of Osun had submitted to fate in the face of his undeniable incompetence in running the state.
It questioned whether violence was still Osun’s only dividend and how the state governor could be at ease with the kind of violence inflicted on the state by the factionalised APC, adding that the disrespect for human lives was disturbing.
The statement urged the APC’s warring sections to put down their swords in the benefit of the people of Osun, citing the disgusting and condemnable level of terror caused by intermittent gunshots by party thugs in the Ogo-Oluwa district of the state capital and other parts of the state on Saturday.
“It is sad that economic activities in these areas were forcefully flagged down as people have to close shops to avoid falling victims of rampaging APC thugs and their bullets. It is indeed a sad turn of events in our dear state,” it read.
Osun PDP, while offering to assist the warring factions in the APC with civilised modes of approaching domestic issues in a political party, also sympathised with victims of the internal party crisis.
“We admonish the suffering masses not to cave into dejection at this time as the four-year ‘Remote Controlled’ regime is fast running out.
“Residents are instead advised to arm themselves with voter cards in the ongoing Continuous Voters Registration by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in steady preparation to reverse the gear of the current shenanigans and reshape the state into a productive path,” it said.
