The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has appealed to the Inspector-General of Police to investigate the abduction and subsequent cruel murder of a chieftain of the party in Ikire, Irewole Local Government Council Area of the state, Mr Saheed Oyegunju, by political thugs suspected to be loyal to Senator Lere Oyewumi, shortly before the election where he secured a controversial victory......READ THE FULL STORY>>.....READ THE FULL STORY>>
According to the press statement signed by Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, Chairman All Progressive Congress APC, Osun State, It was learnt that Oyegunju was waylaid by the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) hoodlums putting on the PDP customized caps on his way to the motor park en-route the presidential campaign of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Osogbo, the state capital, who was eventually elected the nation’s President.
Information has it that the lifeless body of Oyegunju was later found along Oosa Village, an outskirt of Ikire while the PDP political thugs who are loyalists of Senator Oyewumi led by one Sodiq Ayewo and Kokumo, as shown in a trending video where Oyegunju was rough handled on a motorcycle conveying him to his destination.
In his comment on the development, the Osun State chairman of the APC, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, in a statement issued by the party’s Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi, today, stated that it was necessary for the Inspector-General of Police to intensify the investigation of the callous murder of a fellow human being in the name of politics, if only to serve as a deterrent to other evil-minded members in the society.
Lawal also explained that it would be necessary for the police to invite Senator Oyewumi with a view to getting to the root of the heinous crime. “though we are not saying it was the senator who was responsible for the killing but it is desirable for the police to invite him as the suspected killers are being fingered as his die-hard loyalists and political thugs”.
In the words of the state APC chairman: “It is disheartening that one year after the murder of Oyegunju, his killers are still moving freely in Ikire boasting that they are above the law of the land.
“The only way that justice can be procured for the deceased is for the Inspector-General of Police to urgently swing into action by investigating and arraigning those who might be remotely or directly linked with the gruesome murder of one of the illustrious members of our party who was the Ward 9 treasurer in Ikire until his murder.
“It is also necessary and desirable for the police to invite Senator Oyewumi representing Osun West Senatorial District, as it is on record that he was on tape preaching and encouraging violence in one of his political meetings in Ikire where he was directing members of the PDP to kill, injure and and maim members of our party during the last electioneering.
“As a political party, we are pleading with all the members and supporters of our party to continue to embrace peace as we have an absolute confidence in the Inspector-General of Police that justice would be done on the issue of the needless murder of Oyegunju to serve as a deterent to the promoters and leg men of anti-social activities in the nation’s political sphere”, Lawal stated.
