The Peoples Democratic Party in the South West has told the Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, and his party, the Action Congress of Nigeria, to face their problems with security agencies instead of linking the PDP with its self-inflicted crisis.
Reacting to claim by the ACN that the PDP was out to destablise the South West with the security report indicting Aregbesola of breeding Islamic fundamentalists, the PDP Zonal Publicity Secretary, Hon. Kayode Babade, said: “No doubt, PDP will retrieve the South West states from the hands of the locusts that are presently destroying it.
“But we are not going to do so by cutting corners like the ACN did in Ekiti and Osun States.
“On Aregbesola, the question that he (Aregbesola) should answer is why he is using members of TAWUN, an Islamic fundamentalist group, as security guards instead of men of the police and SSS?
“He should explain why he sent five SSS officials out of the Government House in Osogbo because they had disagreement with the TAWUN men that had taken over the job of guarding the governor.
“Aregbesola should also tell the whole world why he changed the name of Osun State to State of Osun and he should explain the difference between State of the State of Palestine or State of Israel and the State of Osun that he now calls Osun State.
“Isn’t it clear that what Aregbesola simply did by changing Osun State to State of Osun was to say that he now has an independent republic inside Nigeria?
“Or constitutionally, can State of Osun continue to receive federal allocation meant for Osun State?
“Therefore, let Aregbesola face the security agencies that authored the report that indicted him of plotting secession and leave us alone in the PDP because we have more important tasks of saving Yorubaland from the ACN locusts that are eating it up now.”