… Alerts Police, Other Security Services
Ahead of the 15th August, 2026 governorship election, the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress APC has stumbled on concerted plans of the state Governor Ademola Adeleke to throw the state into a large scale crisis by enlisting the services of a pliable high court judge in the state to procure an order for the arrest of the state chairman and all the chairmen of the local government council areas of the newly-sworn in National Union of Road Transport Workers(NURTW) executives in the state.
It was reliably gathered that Governor Adeleke was laying the foundation for the arrest of the NURTW state chairman and the chairmen of the transport executives in the local government council areas across the state when he was reasserting himself as being the Chief Security Officer(CSO) of the state at a rally in Osogbo on Monday.
It was gathered that the governor was only acting a script prepared for him by his think tanks when he descended on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the immediate-past governor of the state, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, now Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, at the political rally in Osogbo on Monday.
The leaked information has revealed a surreptitious plan by Governor Adeleke and the Accord Party to procure a warrant of arrest against some newly-inaugurated executives of the NURTW, the Osun State Chapter.
It was gathered that the arrangement is premised on a purported charge filed by the Governor Ademola administration for some offences generally believed to be politically-motivated.
It was found out that rather than serving the affected persons personally, the government sought an order to publish same so as to perfect arrangement to procure an order to remand the innocent union executives.
Further investigation revealed that the matter has got two dates within a space of a week and is slated again for Thursday 6th, August, 2026 and that the plan includes a subtle blackmail against the Nigeria Police Force, President Tinubu and Minister Oyetola.
It was also gathered that the clandestine arrangement is being made in collaboration with one pliable High Court judge in Osogbo so that the members of the executive of the NURTW in the state would be intimidated and remanded in prisons ahead of the forthcoming August, 15th 2026 governorship election.
Information further revealed that the arrangement for hitting the newly-sworn in members of the Osun State chapter of the NURTW below the belt was arrived at in a meeting held somewhere in Osogbo yesterday(Tuesday) 4th August 2026 with the compromised High Court Judge, and certain Accord Party chieftains and members in attendance.
Meanwhile, investigation is still ongoing to establish the identity of the particular judge of the High Court that could have been involved in this planned judicial coup against the NURTW executives in the state.
We, as a party, are enjoining the Osun State Judiciary to be wary of the desperate and rejected political gladiators who are hell bent in riding roughshod on the noble and respectable calling for using the judicial officer as an instrument to victimise the real and perceived political opponents of the incumbent administration of Governor Adeleke.
It won’t be dignifying for the judiciary to allow its name to be dragged in the mud because of politics.
The judiciary vacation is ongoing and one is worried why the rush if at all any charge is genuinely necessary.
With this development, it is now crystal clear that it is the state Governor Adeleke, the supposed and self-acclaimed state CSO of the state and the Accord Party that are planning to disturb the public peace in the state, few days to the governorship election.
The Inspector-General of Police and the national leaderships of other statutory security services are put on notice of the need for them to double up their efforts in ensuring that the state is not avoidably turned into a theatre of war before, during and after the forthcoming governorship election.
Meanwhile, investigation is still ongoing to establish the identity of the particular judge of the High Court that could have been involved in this dastardly arrangement.
The Osun State Judiciary is therefore advised to be wary of these desperate politicians so that its name would not be dragged in the mud.
Notwithstanding, the nation’s security services should take cognizance of the inflammatory and inciting outbursts of Governor Adeleke at the Osogbo political rally on Monday where he was making an allusion to the nation’s political disturbance of 1983.
e-SIGNED:
*Mogaji KOLA OLABISI, Osun State APC Director of Media and Information.*
