Hours after a protest that trailed the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola’s roadshow in Osogbo, the Osun State government has denied a claim that there was a plan to assassinate the former governor of the state.
Special Adviser to Governor Gboyega Oyetola on Political Matters, Sunday Akere, made the denial Tuesday while addressing the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party members at the residence of Chief Bisi Akande, in Ila-Oragun in the state.
Akere restated that there was no truth in the claim, adding that some political hoodlums were only trying to cause crisis in the state.
Earlier, the Osun State Publicity Secretary of the APC faction loyal to Aregbesola, Abiodun Agboola, had in a statement, alleged that there was a plot to assassinate the Minister.
“We wish to inform the general public and security agencies of a plot to kill the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, by default by the state government-sponsored political thugs.
“We say by default because the plan is to lay ambush for the minister’s entourage and deal it massive attacks on his way to visit Iwo on Tuesday,’’ Akere had alleged in a statement.
In a counter, Akere said: “There is no truth in the claim that there are plans to assassinate Aregbesola.”