Osun Election: PDP Knocks Oyetola Over Blockage Of Access To Rally Venues

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State has slammed Governor Gboyega Oyetola over the blockage of access to two rally venues in the state.

Naija News had reported that the PDP governorship candidate, Ademola Adeleke, had claimed that the state government restricted access to the Osogbo City Stadium and Freedom Park, Osogbo.

He stated that a letter was written to the state government to get permission to use the two venues for its mega rally but the PDP’s request was denied.

In a statement on Thursday, the Osun PDP Caretaker Chairman, Dr Akindele Adekunle, said the action of the state government shows that it was already scared of losing  Saturday’s governorship election.

Adekunle said it is shameful that the state government would stoop so low to deny the PDP the opportunity to use the venues.

He claimed that the action revealed the plan of the state government to incite violence and disrupt the peaceful election.

The PDP chairman said: “After due consultations with prominent stakeholders in the state, including our highly revered royal fathers, the leadership of our party, decided to make do with the vicinity of our state secretariat for our Mega Rally.

”Our party considers the action of the state government as an affront of a dying horse and a deliberate attempt to provoke violent reactions from the good people of Osun State, thereby, instigating crisis in the state. It is a shame and a dent on the noble race of Yoruba nation that a governor living at the mercy of tax payers money would find it convenient to descend so low.

“It is elementary for any reasonable government to know that public facilities are meant for public use. The main bowl of the Osogbo City Stadium we applied to use for today’s rally, for instance, had been put in place and adequately maintained by successive administrations in the state for use of our people even before Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola retraced his history to Osun State from Lagos for political trading.

“We are not unaware that Mr Gboyega Oyetola by his refusal to grant our party, the required permission to use the facility, was just only testing waters of the large scale violence he is planning against the state.

“We want to assure him and his cohorts that he would be matched. Any attempt to subvert the electoral verdict of our people will be resisted as bonafide residents of the state. It will not be in his interest nor that of entire country to underestimate this resolve.

“While we call on President Muhammadu Buhari to be awake about the crisis Oyetola is brewing in Osun State, we call on our people not to be discouraged by the defeatist antics of Mr. Oyetola and his baby vuvuzelas. This election is not just about the PDP or Senator Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke, but for the good of our people and humanity in general.”