Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has rejected Governor Ademola Adeleke’s response to allegations that wanted criminals were being harboured at the Government House, describing his reaction as evasive.
The party’s position comes after remarks by the Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, during a visit to the Osun State Government House in Osogbo on Friday.
IGP Disu during the visit said he had received information that wanted criminals were being sheltered within the premises.
In a statement issued on Saturday by the party’s Director of Media and Publicity, Kola Olabisi, the APC maintained that Adeleke’s denial did not adequately address the allegations and insisted that some wanted persons were being protected from arrest.
Olabisi said, “The response of the governor to this weighty allegation of his keeping some of the daredevil criminals in the Government House was grossly evasive and was at variance with the expected response to the allegation.”
He alleged that a viral video showed a wanted suspect on the police watch list leading members of his group into a room within the Government House, adding that photographs also allegedly showed the governor in the company of political thugs at public functions.
The APC spokesman also claimed that “some individuals on the police wanted list had been appointed as political functionaries by the governor. Adeleke’s denial reflected what he described as propaganda.”
Responding on behalf of the Imole Campaign Council, Director of Strategic Communication, Jamiu Olawumi, dismissed the APC’s claims, saying they were baseless and amounted to an
