A faction in the All Progressives Congress supported by the Interior Minister, Rauf Aregbesola, in Osun state, has demanded the removal of the state Police Commissioner, Wale Olokode, whom they accused of bias.
Addressing newsmen at Oranmiyan House, Osogbo on Friday, the chairman of Aregbesola’s faction in Osun APC, Rasaq Salinsile, said a series of attacks on members of the group reported to the Police commissioner were not treated.
Salinsile who also said Olokode was usually quick in attending to complaints by the people in authorities against members of his group, also accused Osun state governor, Adegboyega Oyetola and some leaders of the faction supported by the governor of sponsoring attacks on Aregbesola’s supporters.
He said leaders and members of the group had been exposed to a series of attacks, adding that while the perpetrators were known and a petition was written, no concrete action by the security agents, especially the police.
He said, “We had intelligence reports of the Gboyega Oyetola-led IleriOluwa faction’s plan to assassinate and main us, and we had promptly passed the information to the Commissioner of Police in particular and all other security agencies. But nothing was done about it till now.
“We are of the firm belief that the refusal to act on our petitions on the impending attacks by the police and other security agencies emboldened the criminally minded associates of Governor Oyetola to become vicious on their attacks on us.
“As the security were not scrutinizing our reports not to talk of investigating it, so were they looking the other way whenever we are attacked. The worst is that we are punished by the Commissioner of Police, Wale Olokode-led police whenever such an attack happens.
We, therefore, call on CP Olokode to ask the Inspector General of Police to post him out of Osun. We plead with the Inspector General of Police to please expeditiously transfer CP Olokode from Osun with immediate effect. CP Olokode, to the best of human understanding, is incapable of carrying out his job impartially as demanded by the constitution.
“This is clear from the litany of events that we have listed above. We note that the environment in which Oranmiyan House exists is a business district as there are banks and other significant businesses there.”
