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Osun APC, PDP Scuffle Over Bid to Woo Transport Union

POSTED ON June 19, 2024 •   Politics      BY Benedicta Bassey
Osun state Governor Ademola Adeleke/ Photo credit: Guardian

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has accused Governor Ademola Adeleke of engaging in measures to secure a second term in office.

The opposition party also alleged that the governor was using his office to  force commercial motorcycle and tricycle operators in the state to swear to an oath of continuous support for the Peoples Democratic Party.

The Osun APC Chairman, Mr. Tajudeen Lawal, made the claims in a statement he signed yesterday.

Lawal alleged: “It was learnt that Governor Adeleke has now resorted to forcing commercial motorcycle and tricycle operators in the state to swear to an oath of continuous support for the PDP in all the future elections with the god of iron called ‘Ogun’ in Yoruba parlance.

“It was also gathered that words have been passed round from the state capital level of the transportation unions that the secret oath-taking of the compulsory allegiance should be held in all the units of the unions across the nooks and crannies of the state.

“Governor Adeleke and his co-travellers have also been going round the state to woo back the real owners of the PDP in the state that they chased away with cudgels, cutlasses, abuses and lack of political patronage immediately Adeleke was announced the winner of the governorship election by the Supreme Court."

He warned the governor and his supporters to desist from such act which goes against the provision of the constitution.

Reacting to the allegation, the Osun PDP Chairman, Mr Sunday Bisi, described APC’s allegation as a false campaign against the ruling party and the governor.

Bisi said Adeleke did not need to force anyone to take an oath because his incredible performance had earned him the needed support across sectors.

He said: “Contrary to the false impression that Sooko Tajudeen Lawal tried to create, we authoritatively gathered that the Osun APC advances to transporters in Osun did not yield fruit and the only thing Kola Olabisi could come up with was to lie to the public.

“To any reasonable mind in Osun, it would not be so hard to understand why transporters in Osun turned down the APC advances. His time at the helm in Osun State brought nothing but pains and anguish, and it is, therefore, nothing but nonsense on the part of Sooko Tajudeen Lawal to try and cover for his party’s failure and the consequent rejection by cooking up cheap lies.

“Only parasitic elements like the APC will ever contemplate that Governor Adeleke will need to force support, especially when the only alternative are those who almost drove the state into a ditch through reckless financial mismanagement and poor welfare attitude.”

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