LG crisis: Osun PDP, APC trade words over killings

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State on Monday, February 17, 2025, traded words over the alleged killing of three persons in the state.

The members of both parties were locked in a battle for the control of some local government secretariats.

It was gathered that while two persons were killed in Iragbiji in Boripe Local Government Area, another was killed in Irewole Local Government Area of Osun State.

There has been tension across the state over the Court of Appeal judgement on the sacked APC council chairmen and councillors.

While the Osun PDP claimed that the February 10 judgement of the Court of Appeal, Akure Division, did not reinstate the sacked APC chairmen and councillors elected in 2022, the APC insisted on their return.

Speaking with newsmen in Iragbiji, the Osun State Commissioner for Government Affairs and Protocol, Korede Ajeigbe, said two PDP members were killed while trying to prevent APC members from taking over a secretariat.

Ajeigbe added that six PDP members were injured and have since been receiving treatment in the hospital.

The APC, however, alleged that PDP members attacked its members while trying to enforce the Court of Appeal judgement.

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Addressing a news conference in Osogbo, the capital of Osun State, a chieftain of the APC, Bayo Adeleke, claimed that one of the party’s prominent members was killed during the crisis.

He also alleged that another APC member, Remi Omowaye, escaped an assassination attempt in the Ilesa area of Osun State.

Adeleke, a former Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, urged the state government to allow peace to reign by allowing the APC chairmen and councillors to return to office.

The police spokesperson in Osun State, CSP Yemisi Opalola, said she was yet to be briefed on the alleged killings.

Opalola, however, said police officers had been deployed to all the local government secretariats in Osun State to prevent a breakdown of law and order.

Meanwhile, Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke has directed workers as well as politicians to stay away from local government secretariats to avoid further bloodshed.

Adeleke, in a statement on Monday, said only security agents would be allowed to keep watch at the secretariats.

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