APC Accuses Adeleke Of Plot To Attack Members With Fake Policemen

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has alleged that the state Governor, Ademola Adeleke, is planning to use fake police officers to arrest its members at the local government secretariats.

This comes after an earlier directive by Governor Adeleke to the state Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Abba to stop the tax extortion by illegal operators by individuals appointed to various markets in the state by the reinstated Yes/No chairmen.

The governor asked the police commissioner to invite the affected council chairmen for questioning for falsifying council documents, collecting dubious revenue through illegal documents and for imposing and collecting illegal revenue from market operators.

But the APC while reacting said the governor is planning to unleash mayhem on the market tax collectors, calling on the Inspector-General to direct the state Commissioner of Police to investigate the matter.

A statement by the Director of Media and Information of the party, Kola Olabisi, read, “The latest in the government’s puerile attempt to maintain its hold on the local government administration is to mobilize Niger Delta militants and hoodlums drawn from other parts of the South-West geo-political zone to disguise in police uniforms to disrupt business activities in markets around the state and turn around to blame the APC for the mayhem.

“The plot also includes infringing bodily injuries on officials of the local government giving leadership in the markets in the state.

“Even though our local government executives have on many occasions stated their resolve to suspend collection of taxes and levies in the markets to give a lease of life to traders who over two years have been extorted by the miscreants recruited by the state government in the name of generating IGR, the Adeleke government continues to misinform the public as to the good intention of our reinstated chairmen and councillors.

“It is unfortunate that Governor Adeleke and his cohorts have refused to come to terms with the fact that in the eyes of the law today, the reinstated APC executive chairmen and councillors are legally in charge of the administration of the local government across the state under which effective supervision of all the markets falls.

“By virtue of the Court of Appeal judgement of the 10th of February, 2025, the said chairmen and councillors cannot be said to be performing illegal duties by superintending the markets which fall within the purview of their schedule as allowed by the Constitution.

“One wonders why Governor Adeleke is afraid of approaching the Supreme Court if he is angry that the Court of Appeal backed the elected chairmen to return to their office to exercise the mandate given to them by the electorate in October 2022. The governor should act decently and honourably, rather than knocking his head on the wall, pacing maniacally like a bull in a china shop.

“We invite the Inspector-General of Police and the Commissioner of Police in the state to caution Governor Adeleke and other troublers of peace, reminding them that no section of Nigeria’s Constitution grants the state the power to oversee the affairs of the markets in their domains.

“We resolve that the political instability which Governor Adeleke has courted in recent time, and which his faction of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) has been conscripted to energize, would be given to him in full dosage if he decides to prevent the recognized, lawfully elected and reinstated local government council chairmen from performing their constitutional duties.”