By Tunde Olamilekan
The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has tasked security agencies to fish out the killers of three members of the party in the state.
The APC condemned what it described as extra-judicial killings of the three members by hoodlums allegedly working for politicians in the state.
The party in a statement by its Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi, a member of the APC in Ila, Mr Lateef Ajitoba, was allegedly murdered on Friday by political hoodlums.
According to the statement, “On Friday, shortly after the superlative 87th birthday anniversary of former Governor Bisi Akande in Ila-Orangun, another bizarre, gruesome murder of a member of the APC in the ancient town, took place.
“The victim, Mr Lateef Ajitoba, was the driver to Alhaji Rasheed Adeniji, the Osun State APC Assistant Organising Secretary, who doubles as one of the personal aides of Chief Akande. Ajitoba, who was very active during the birthday anniversary, was released by his boss to go home for a deserved rest.
“Members of the household who got in touch with Ajitoba’s boss through telephone calls when the father of the house did not show up at home were surprised that he had been released the previous evening. The effort of a search party later revealed that the mangled body of Ajitoba with several axe cuts on his body, was discovered inside a gutter at the Oke-Ogbun, Osogbo Road, Ila-Orangun.”
Another alleged murder, according to the APC, was that of one Mr Kazeem Oyebamiji, a former unit chairman of the state chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, on Sunday.
Olabisi said the suspected killers of Oyebamiji were allegedly close to the source of power in the state and have been on the police wanted list for some of the past political killings.
“As if that was enough, the peace of Osogbo was temporarily put into confusion on Sunday evening when the news of the gruesome murder of one Mr Kazeem Oyebamiji, former unit chairman of the Osun State chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers(NURTW), filtered in.
“It was gathered that the suspected killers of Oyebamiji are close to the source of power in the state and have been on the police wanted list for some of the past political killings. Information also has it that the suspects are taking the undue advantage of both the immunity and fortification of the state government’s abode to evade arrest,” he noted.
Olabisi added that, “some yet to be identified assailants murdered a leader of the NURTW in the state who was an apologist of the APC, Mr Adeboye Ademoroti, on the 27th November, 2025.”
The party, while condemning the development, said it portended a great danger to the public peace and tranquillity in the state, capable of threatening the democratic machinery.
The APC said, “The police and all other statutory security services should beef up their professional strategies with a view to bringing the culprits and their sponsors to book for justice to take its ccourse
“The reactionary elements who are thinking that the forthcoming governorship election in the state could be won through violence like that of 2022 should have a rethink as the proverbial snake of yesterday has since ported to another place”.
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