The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress on Monday said it will be futile for any group or persons to attempt using the safety of Justice Folahanmi Oloyede as a strategy to throw the state into chaos.
The APC disclosed that from the first day that the government became aware of Oloyede’s petition against the Governor, special security arrangements were provided to prevent anything untoward happening to her.
The party said continuous media campaigns alleging danger or insecurity to the life of Justice Oloyede is a mere campaign only sustained to blackmail the state and the government of Governor Rauf Aregbesola.
The party, through a statement by the Director of Media and Strategy, Barrister Kunle Oyatomi, said unknown to the sponsors of this wicked campaigns of calumny, right from day one that Oloyede submitted her petition, the government had taken a pro-active measure by alerting the head of the Courts in Osun State, Chief Justice Adepele Ojo, and security agencies, including the Nigeria Police Force, the Department of State Services to provide adequate and enhanced security around the person and residence of Justice Oloyede.
The APC Justice Oloyede herself cannot deny the fact of this enhanced security around her person and residence up till now.
The party explained that Governor Aregbesola took the precautionary measure bearing in mind what opponents of his administration were capable of orchestrating with the life of Justice Oloyede.
The party’s statement added: “This is because of the antecedents of the sponsors of this inexplicable and unnecessary tension in our state that they might want to use the opportunity of her petition against the governor to unduly stoke crisis in the state.
“It is therefore worrisome that several weeks after this had happened, the scallywags are still pursuing their totally untenable subversion of the popular will by campaigning on the pages of newspapers a threat that never existed except in their weird imagination and criminal intentions.”
The Osun State chapter of the APC therefore called on members of the public to be wary of the activities of those plotting to throw the state in chaos just as it asked the security agencies to be alert.
It said: “This is to alert members of the public and all security agencies of the criminal intentions of the sponsors of this orchestrated campaigns to prevent our peaceful state from being plunged into needless anarchy. Osun has been peaceful and remains so and any impression of tension or anarchy being created is just a manifestation of the evil plots of those who are in desperate pursuit of an agenda to plunge the state into crisis.”