The All Progressives Congress in Osun State has backed the directive of the Inspector General of Police, Olatunji Disu, to the state Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Gotan, to smoke out alleged hoodlums said to be sheltered in the government house.
The party, in a statement on Monday through its Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi, said the IGP’s instruction during his working visit to the state last Friday confirmed allegations the party had earlier raised against Governor Ademola Adeleke.
“The IGP, during his working visit to Osun State on Friday, frontally confronted the state governor that there was an allegation against him of illegally sheltering hardened criminals in the Government House to evade arrest, investigation and subsequent prosecution,” the statement said.
The party advised the police to extend any planned operation beyond the Government House to include the country homes of the Adelekes in Ede, as well as a tertiary institution and a secondary school owned by the governor’s elder brother in the town.
According to APC, the alleged suspects may have been moved there to shield the government from embarrassment.
APC said the comments by the Commissioner for Information, Mr Kolapo Alimi, who allegedly described the IGP as a “subtle blackmailer” for raising the issue, said the state government’s reaction to the IGP’s comments was “misplaced and an afterthought.”
“The damage control mission of the ever-loquacious Governor Adeleke’s information commissioner is a medicine after death as the whole world has witnessed the anomaly of the government in being verifiably criminal-friendly in actions and inactions,” the party said.
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