Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, Wednesday evening, said
for whatever happens to any member of the All Progressive Congress in the
state. Minister of State, Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, should be held
responsible.
Aregbesola,
made the remarks at the launch of the students’ smart identity card held at
Salvation Army Middle School, Alekuwodo, Osogbo.
He
noted that it is on good authority that Obanikoro, in conjunction with the
Police Affairs Minister, Jelil Adesiyan, has instructed security personnel to
shoot and kill two APC members.
The
governor charged security agents to play by the rules, condemning what happened
at the Nelson Mandela Freedom Park Wednesday morning, where people who were
supposed to campaign for APC were turned back by security agents.
Aregbesola
questioned what Obanikoro is doing in Osun, noting that members of the APC have
been told to be law-abiding; but with the recent provocation, people, when
pushed to the wall, will react.
He
said: “How could a party like the PDP be this desperate, Obanikoro, with Jelili
Adesiyan, told the security agents that by the time two members of the APC are
shot at and killed by the police, other members will learn, and with that, the
stiff resistance of APC will be destroyed.
“We
want to use this medium to appeal to our security agencies not to allow
themselves to be used by these PDP candidate and the two ministers whose party
before this administration had been terrorising the good people of our state.
“I
am using this medium to tell the security operatives that Osun people are
law-abiding people; they have always been contributing to the payment of your
salaries and you are not supposed to harass them with the guns, which were
bought for you with tax money”.
On
the smart Identity card for students, the governor noted that Information
Communication Technology (ICT) is among other promising paths his administration
has chosen to tread in the march towards realising the state’s development
dream.
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