By Richard Akintade, Osogbo
Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has lampooned the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over its accusation of being responsible for the attack of the Osogbo office of the Osun Central senatorial candidate of its party, Olubiyi Fadeyi Ajagunla, yesterday.
According to a statement issued by Kola Olabisi, the Media Adviser to the Osun APC chairman, Prince Gboyega Famodun, in Osogbo, the state capital today, the attack story is shrouded in many questions begging for answers in the minds of the right-thinking members of the society.
The statement stated that: “Much as we abhor and condemn introduction of violence under any guise into the political firmament of Osun State, we however, consider it hasty for the state factional chapter of the (PDP) to hold the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) responsible for the purported attack on the Osogbo campaign office of its Osun Central senatorial candidate, one Olubiyi Fadeyi Ajagunla, yesterday.
“It’s important to state that the fingering of the APC for the alleged attack as was stated in the press statement issued by Oladele Bamiji, the spokesman of the PDP in Osun State yesterday, still remains within the realm of a fabrication and absolute falsehood diabolically scripted to call a dog a bad name in order to hang it.
“The make-believe attack appears a carefully worked out arrangement to serve as an alibi for the PDP to carry out its series of pre-planned large-scale attacks on the APC stakeholders to coincide with the conduct of the local government council election in the state.
“We are not unaware of the PDP’s stockpiling of arms and ammunitions per local government basis through which violence would be perpetrated on our leaders, members and supporters in order to make Osun State ungovernable for the sitting Governor Gboyega Oyetola.
“If the allegation attack on the office of the PDP Senatorial candidate wasn’t an arrangement skillfully worked out to falsely indict the APC, the PDP emissary of rift should feel free to disclose to the whole world who conducted the investigation that revealed that it was the APC that was responsible for the attack?”
