Members All Progressives Congress (APC) are taking the laws into their hands right now in Osun State.
Officials of the party in the state have forcefully taken over 14 council secretariats, Vanguard reported.
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This is happening as the escalating crisis in the state enters day three. The Mail recalls that at least 8 people, including former chairman of Irewole Local Government Area, Mr. Aderemi Abbas, were killed on Monday.
Origin of Osun State crisis
Appeal Court passed controversial ruling that allegedly reinstated the APC-elected chairmen and councillors in Osun state. Emboldened by the judgement, APC members and their elects proceeded on Monday to occupy the secretariats.
Meanwhile, the members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were already waiting and willing at the secretariats across the state to fight.
But the state governor, Ademola Adeleke, had warned on Monday that Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Gboyega Oyetola, has bribed heads of security agencies to aid the APC takeover.
When the two parties met on Monday, all the council areas engulfed in bloody fight that left scores wounded apart from claiming many lives.
Does APC truly bribe the police in Osun?
It appears the police and its sister agencies have been bribeb not to act, alleged the Speaker of Osun state House of Assembly, Adewale Olumide Egbedun.
“Today, members of the opposition party in the state, the All Progressives Congress (APC), forcefully broke into local government secretariats across the state,” Egbedun told journalists this morning.
He added that while this forceful, “unlawful” takeover was being carried out, security agents stood by and watched.
Some of the affected local government areas include Obokun, Ife-East, Odo-Otin, Atakumosa-West, Orolu, Ejigbo, Ifelodun, and Ilesa-West among others.
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