Osun state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the alert raised by governor Ademola Adeleke on security as fake and diversionary.
Adeleke had raised the alarm over a purported plan by some criminals to unleash mayhem on the rural dwellers, and kidnap and destroy farms.
The APC chairman, Tajudeen Lawal, in a statement by its Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi, said it was unfortunate that a whole state governor with a full complement of paraphernalia of security could be sending a phony signal on insecurity in his territory.
The party described it as ‘disheartening’ that despite Adeleke’s claim of traveling around to attract investors, he is still diverting the attention of the people from the N100 billion using security excuses.
“It was irritating and laughable that a government that is not known to have taken a serious policy on the improvement of agriculture since its inauguration about 16 months ago is now crying wolves where none exists.
“Governor Adeleke should sit up for once and give the people of the state the quality governance he promised the people during his campaign instead of engaging in the creation of another phony agenda meant to have a diversionary motive.
“We are not politically inexperienced not to have an understanding that the Adeleke-invented security threat against the state is a ploy to shift their attention from discussing his ill-thought-out N100 billion white elephant projects when hunger is working on four legs in all the streets in the nooks and crannies of the state.
“There is nothing wrong in a government being proactive on security issues but it is criminal and an express admission of failure for any government to use same as a weapon of deceit to confuse the governed.
“One wonders why governor Adeleke should not order the immediate arrest of the suspects he alleged of threatening the state security if actually, he is not selling a mere dummy to the people of the state.
“We, as a party, are not cheaply taken in by the ranting of the state government on the non-existing security threat to the state. The governor should instantly address all the detected frauds bedeviling the award of his questionable multi-billion naira infrastructure plan”, the Osun State APC chairman charged.
