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Action Congress(AC)now Action Congress
of Nigeria(ACN) Gubernatorial candidate
in disputed 2007 Governorship election
in Osun state,Engineer Rauf Aregbesola
has stormed Osogbo,the State capital to
condole with the family and the people
of Osogbo on the demise of late Ataoja
of Osogboland,Oba Iyiola Oyewale Matanmi
111, where he described the first class
monarch as cultural Icon.
He also
organised a Fidau Prayer for the repose
of late Oba Oyewale Matanmi 111 on
Friday which was well attended
event-on the platform of Action Congress
of Nigeria(ACN) and sponsored by
Engineer Aregbesola .
Aregbesola who was accompanied by his
running mate Mrs Tomori Laoye and other
leaders of the party in the state
earlier to the palace to pay his
condolence visti stressed that it was
imperative for him to come and
commiserate with the people on the
death of Ataoja
He stressed that the late prominent
monarch did his best to promote
peace,development,progress and
particularly the promotion of culture
which made sure that Osun Osogbo grew
to be recognised internationally.
Aregbesola in his condolence register
said"On behalf of myself, family and my
party,Action Congress of Nigeria(ACN),I
join the people of Osogbo to mourn a
passage of a cultural Icon,Late Oba
Iyiola Oyewale Matanmi 111,Baba Sun
reo.I pray that the peace, harmony and
progress that Osogbo witnessed during
your reign and subsist and linger
forever"
ACN chieftain pointed out that as a
cultured fellow of Yorubaland
extraction,the Oba is not dead but has
retired; which means there is no cause
for mourning as late Ataoja has gone to
join his ancestor .He added that Oba
Oyewale lived and died well;he is a
legend and he deserves to be honoured.
He later advised that whoever that
succeeds the late monarch should
struggle to out-pace him in development
of the town.
On the political front in the state,he
said he would soon become the Governor
of Osun State.
Among his entourage were Alhaji Mosshood
Adeoti,the State party chairman, its
secretary Prince Gboyega Famodun,Alhaji
Fatai Diekola Oyedele,Alhaji Layi
Oyeduntan and host of others.
In his Fidau Lecture,an Islamic
Schoolar,Sheikh Abdu Raheem Olelere
Yusuff who is Chief Missioner ,Oamorul
Islam Central Mosque,Osogbo urged people
to do good on earth because whatever
everybody does would be living after
him.
Shiekh Lere praised Aregbesola for his
painstaking approach he ha adopted in
pursuing his governorship mandate and
saluted his courage.He also encouraged
him to remain focused and continue do
good to the people and pray that God
would answer his prayers on his
governorship ambition.
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OSUN POLICE
SHOULD CALL PDP TO ORDER ON VIOLENCE-ACN
The Action Congress (AC) Osun state has
charged the Inspector General of Police
(IGP) to as a matter of urgency order
the Osun State Commissioner of Police to
tame the mad dogs in the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) currently
disturbing the peace of the state of the
living spring.
The call became necessary considering
the spate of intra PDP crisis rocking
several local chapters of the PDP in
which several lives have been lost,
In a press release made available to
newsmen in Osogbo and signed by
its Director of Research and Strategy
Hon Sunday Akere, Osun ACN condemned the
lukewarm attitude to the various spate
of violent clashes between contending
gubernatorial camps in the PDP across
the state lately in which many lives
have been lost including that of a
Divisional Police Officer (DPO) with no
arrest made.
Some three weeks back ,supporters of two
PDP gladiators engaged themselves in
free for all over who will take control
of the party machinery in Irewole local
government between Omisore and Peter
Power with several people laying injured
when the dust of the crisis settled and
the DPO for the local government ending
up in hospital where he died few days
after. The same scenario was repeated in
Iwo , headquarters of Iwo local
government between supporters of
Akinbade and Omisore; Ijebujesa,
Headquarters of Oriade local government,
Boripe, Odo Otin LGs amongst others.
The most astounding was the bloody clash
between supporters of Gbenga Onigbogi
and the same Omisore both of whom are
gubernatorial aspirants on PDP platform
in Ilesa East Local government last
Monday. Information indicates that the
crisis snowballed into a free for all
because of alleged attempt to impeach
the chairman of the party in the local
government who happens to be a notorious
thug that has been terrorizing the place
since 2005 and is considered to be
backing a supposed outsider against a
son of the soil. The chairman was said
to have invaded the meeting where his
impeachment was been discussed and went
on a shooting spree which left one
person dead and several critically
injured at the end of the day.
While one might say it’s a purely PDP
intra party affair, the claim of the
Commissioner of Police that they are not
aware of such crisis when an Area
Commander and DPO superintend over
security matter in the area to us is not
only shocking but absurd. The crisis
which was so intense to necessitate the
people of Irojo quarters of the local
government imposing on themselves three
days all round curfew cannot be
considered insignificant to the extent
of going unnoticed by security
operatives.
When one considers the decision of the
National Assembly to mutilate the
recommendation of the Justice Uwais
panel that recommended stiff punishment
for electoral offenders and those that
committed violent electoral crimes
placed side by side with the
lackadaisical attitude of the police to
watch the PDP commit heinous crimes
against humanity without check, one will
see their hangs an ominous cloud over
the possibility of President Jonathan
giving us a free and fair election in
2011.
If people involved in violent crimes
even within their immediate family set
up not to talk of within their political
parties are made to face the wrath of
the law, it will go a long way in
helping the police to effectively stem
such acts in the coming election as
sufficient signal would have been sent
that the Police will not condone such
acts from anybody. But when the PDP are
left to maim themselves now and send
innocent police officers to early grave,
when they will turn their focus on
opposition parties in future the police
will find themselves helpless because of
their failure to tame the mad dogs
before things get out of hand.
Osun state today holds the unfortunate
record of parading a governor who ruled
for eight years and could still not
point to any enviable achievement that
could fetch him a seat in the upper
legislative chamber (Senate) but will
rather resort to bribing the people with
cars, money and unmitigated violence
when bribe fails. The various spate of
violence rocking Osun state today has
the blessing of the powers that be who
will benefit from it as they did during
the 2007 Governorship election when
twelve (12) innocent souls were sent to
their early grave so as to forcefully
hold on to power.
If the police refuse to rise up to their
responsibility today, opposition parties
too will be forced to adopt the “if you
cannot beat them, join them” approach as
nobody holds the monopoly of violence.
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