A faction in the All Progressives Congress supported by the Interior Minister, Rauf Aregbesola, in Osun State, has demanded the removal of the state Police Commissioner, Wale Olokode, whom they accused of bias.
Addressing newsmen on Friday at Oranmiyan House, Osogbo, the Chairman of Aregbesola’s faction in Osun APC, Rasaq Salinsile, said series of attacks on members of the group reported to the CP were not addressed.
Salinsile spoke on the heels of Thursday’s attack on Aregbesola’s campaign office by suspected political thugs.
He said Olokode was usually quick in attending to complaint by the people in authorities against members of his group and also accused the Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, and some leaders of the faction supported by the governor of sponsoring attacks on Aregbesola’s supporters.
Salinsile said while the perpetrators were known and petition written, there was no concrete action by the security agencies, especially the police.
He said, “We had intelligence reports of the Gboyega Oyetola-led Ilerioluwa faction’s plan to assassinate and maim some of us, and we promptly passed the information to the Commissioner of Police in particular and all other security agencies. But nothing was done about it till now.
“We are of the firm belief that the refusal to act on our petitions on the impending attacks by the police and other security agencies emboldened the criminally minded associates of Governor Oyetola to become vicious on their attacks on us.
“As the security agencies were not scrutinising our reports not to talk of investigating it, so were they looking the other way whenever we are attacked. The worst is that we are punished by the Commissioner of Police, Wale Olokode-led police whenever such attack happens.
“We therefore call on CP Olokode to ask the Inspector General of Police to post him out of Osun. We plead with the Inspector General of Police to please expeditiously transfer CP Olokode from Osun with immediate effect. CP Olokode, to the best of human understanding, is incapable of carrying out his job impartially as demanded by the constitution.”
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