ADESIYAN, OBANIKORO’S POSTINGS: PLOT TO RIG OSUN, EKITI POLLS —OSUN GOVT

ADESIYAN, OBANIKORO’S POSTINGS: PLOT TO RIG OSUN, EKITI POLLS —OSUN GOVT

THE decision of President Goodluck Jonathan to assign security portfolios to the new ministerial appointees from South-West is a grand ploy to rig the forthcoming governorship elections in Osun and Ekiti States, it was alleged at the weekend.

At a media parley addressed by three commissioners from Osun State in conjunction with the National Legal Adviser of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Osun State government claimed that the new Minister of Police Affairs, Mr. Jelili Adesiyan and Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro were deliberate placements since the two elections were seen as preliminaries to the 2015 presidential election in which the Peoples Democratic Party would be targeting the South-West.

Osun State Commissioner for Land, Regional Planning and Urban Development, Muyiwa Ige who spoke on behalf of the state and family, said those involved in his father’s killing would not know peace, regardless of cover-up plots.

“The appointment of the minister was more of selection and not of Omoluwabi structure. We all witnessed the issue at the National Assembly. It is also the first time in the history of Nigeria that three senators from Osun State unanimously rejected the candidate and the machinery of government was used to elevate him.  

Speaking on the killing of his father and the legal battle to bring the killers to book, Muyiwa said it was a travesty of justice in the way the whole issue was handled, alleging the use of government machinery to scuttle the legal proceedings.

On the probability of using Adesina to undermine the conduct of free, fair and acceptable elections in Osun and Ekiti, Ige said: “It smacks of a strategy of doing something with the election coming up in Ekiti and Osun. They have been screaming now that the coming elections in Osun and Ekiti are preliminaries to 2015 presidential election under the guise of federal might.

“With what has been done and happening in Osun by Governor Aregbesola and likewise in Ekiti, it will be very difficult for them to achieve that. We know they want to make it a do or die thing but we are very much alert, that’s why we must begin to sensitise the citizenry.”