By Timothy Agbor, Osogbo
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke and the immediate past Spokesperson of the Senate, Ajibola Basiru, have disagreed over the alleged presence of suspected assassins at the Osogbo Eid praying ground during the Eid-el-Kabir prayer.
Adeleke, through his spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, had accused Basiru of hiring some suspected assassins to the praying ground to kill Adeleke and create stampede at the premises to cause bad blood for the governor in the state.
Basiru, while addressing journalists in Osogbo, yesterday, alleged that Adeleke’s security details and advanced team were porous and inefficient for allowing the governor to meet such a chaotic situation at the praying ground and also failing to arrest any of the suspected hired assassins they claimed clustered around the number one citizen of Osun.
“I pity the governor of Osun State because he surrounds himself with people who don’t know how to represent him very well and those who suppose to be his handlers are people who are pushing illogical narratives for him,” he said.
Basiru expressed surprise that the governor could storm out of the venue because of a sitting position and refused to say the prayer.
He declared that the security details of Adeleke and his handlers are efficient and competent, adding that investigation was ongoing on the alleged role of the former senator.
“Governors’ handlers are more than competent, hence the superlative performance of the administration in the last seven months. There was an advanced team, which had secured a space for the governor. Basiru hijacked the space and refused to vacate it.
“The handlers are smarter because the senator’s agenda was to create violence and stampede which he planned to blame on the governor,” he stated.
“The presence of armed thugs was to kill and create stampede, all which will be blamed on the governor. But the team was smarter, hence the governor leaving the venue and denying dark minds of their yearnings for blood.
“Again, the right thing was done by the police that quizzed the culprit, Basiru. Ours is a law-abiding administration. The governor escaped assassination attempt, and the worshippers escaped stampede that would have claimed lives of innocent citizens,” Rasheed maintained.
Source: The Guardian
