APC Caucus Alleges Plan To Eliminate Leaders

The Osun State Progressive (TOP), a caucus of the Osun All Progressives Congress (APC) has alerted security agencies of a fresh plot by members of Ileri Oluwa, another caucus within the party, to eliminate its notable members.
In a press statement signed by its Chairman, Adelowo Adebiyi, and made available to newsmen, the group said that information at its disposal clearly revealed that Ileri Oluwa  had concluded plans to eliminate TOP leaders as a means of putting a stop to members of the opposition.
Adebiyi stated that evidence showed that some of their members had been threatened with assassination via phone calls which started at the weekend.
The former Osun APC Chairman explained that the reason for their action was because Ileri Oluwa which enjoyed the governor’s support was jittery over the outcome of the case instituted by members of the TOP caucus.
Added to the apprehension on ground, he said was the planned entry into the gubernatorial race by Lasun Yusuff, a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Credible intelligence, according to the TOP Chairman, also revealed that an urgent meeting of the Ileri Oluwa top hierarchy was held somewhere in Boripe Local Government about a week ago where the decision to assassinate some leaders of TOP was finalised as the last joker to check our group’s contest for power with them.
While stating that nobody had the monopoly of violence, Adebiyi explained that the group had made reports of plots to attack and assassinate its leaders in the past to the security agents which had not been treated till date.
Recall that Adebiyi had in July raised the alarm that some government officials and APC chieftains were planning to assassinate and attack caucus leaders in the state.
On August 14, Biyi Odunlade, a former Commissioner for Youths, Sports and Special Needs, escaped assassination when assailants attacked his house in Ile-Ife and on October 16, party members were shot at during a parallel congress in Ogo-Oluwa area of Osogbo.
Reacting, the Osun APC Director of Media and Publicity, Barrister Kunle Oyatomi, stated that “the caucus is just shouting for shouting sake as they have no facts to support what they have been saying”.
Oyatomi accused the TOP leadership of just coming out to allege and conjure foolish things that they could think of.
Expressing disappointment, the Osun APC spokesperson stated that “the mindset of TOP members is not known but whatever it is, it is never expected from them”.
“Their act is totally unacceptable to begin to comment on this type of thing. We should thread softly since we are still going to come together and we shouldn’t do things that will make us to look so stupid”, he added.