All Progressives Congress and the People’s Democratic Party in Osun State on Tuesday traded insults over the state governor, Ademola Adeleke’s visit to ex-governor Bisi Akande in his Ibadan, Oyo State home.

The two men held discussions over crises regarding the control of local government areas in the state in Ibadan at a meeting that lasted about two hours behind closed doors.

APC in a statement in reaction to the meeting signed by his spokesperson, Kola Olabisi, berated Adeleke for going to Akande after members of the party had been killed during the mayhem that followed the resumption in office by the officials elected in the October 15, 2022, local government election in the state.

Olabisi chided Adeleke for running to Akande. “Apparently begging the distinguished democrat for a soft landing on the prevailing political logjam on the reinstated council chairmen and councillors in the state.”

The statement further read, “It was strange that Governor Adeleke and his cohorts could find a way to Pa Akande’s residence after the Peoples Democratic Party’s thugs, acting on the governor’s body language, had killed one of the reinstated local government council chairmen of Chief Akande’s party, Hon Remi Abass, in Ikire and other members of the opposition party in the other parts of the state a few days ago.

“We want to impress it on Governor Adeleke and his co-travellers that Pa Akande is a democrat and no amount of under-the-table arrangement would make the former governor of the state work against the interest of his party. Does Governor Adeleke want Pa Akande to praise him for being instrumental in the killing of the chieftain and members of his party?

“We want to believe that there are knowledgeable political lieutenants of Governor Adeleke who should guide him aright that the proper place for him to go if at all he has any case for redress after the Akure verdict of 10th of February, 2025, is the Supreme Court.”

The APC advised Adeleke to partner with the reinstated council chairmen and councillors to ensure the dividend of democracy cut across the length and breadth of the state.

But Osun PDP, while reacting to the development, commended Adeleke for kick-starting his statewide consultations with a visit to Akande.




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