Osun APC Petitions DSS, Police Over Alleged Plot By PDP To Takeover LGs

The tension in Osun State over local government leadership intensified on Monday, as the state chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Mr Tajudeen Lawal, dragged the state chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Sunday Bisi, and three others before the state police command and the Department of State Services.

In the petition, Lawal alleged that the PDP was recruiting armed thugs to attack the political functionaries in the local government secretariats across the state.

Lawal, in a letter dated Monday, June 16, 2025, signed on his behalf by the APC State Legal Adviser, Adegoke Ogunsola, also listed the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Kolapo Alimi, Chairman of the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission, Hassim Abioye, and the spokesperson to the governor, Olawale Rasheed, as others involved in the plot.

But the Osun PDP spokesperson, Oladele Bamiji, when contacted, dismissed the allegation, noting that it was APC leaders in the state who were planning violence to pave the way for the declaration of emergency rule.

Bamiji, who said Adeleke had already instructed chairmen elected on the platform of PDP in the February 22, 2025, election to avoid council secretariats, assured that the party in government would never encourage violence.

“They are the ones trying to orchestrate violence, perhaps to work to the answer of emergency rule they always crave.

“We have heard one of their governorship aspirants call for emergency rule openly on national television. APC had issued releases several times calling for emergency rule in the state.

“That is what they are perhaps expecting to convince Mr President to declare emergency rule in Osun.

“But beyond that, whoever is lost to such violence can’t be brought back. Our governor will never toe such a line or encourage loss of lives and properties.

“Nobody is mobilising any thug. The governor has made it clear that the local government chairmen elected on February 22 are still within their time and should wait,” Bamiji said.

The PDP spokesperson said Governor Ademola Adeleke resorted to legal options to prevent bloodshed.