PDP In Osun Alleges That APC Intends To Use Police To Harass Its Members

The People’s Democratic Party in Osun State has urged the Inspector General of Police Usman Baba to reject the requests from the state’s All Progressives Congress (APC) to arrest PDP officials.

The Osun state chapter of the PDP stated this in a statement signed by the party’s caretaker committee chairman, Dr Akindele Adekunle, and issued in Osogbo on Friday.

According to the statement, the PDP urged APC “to learn to play politics by the rules and not always scheming to circumvent the will of the people, warning that such habitual laziness and opportunistic tendencies will burst out of the roof and throw the country into flames.”

The statement continued, “PDP reckoned that such lazy audacity is dangerous in a determined society where people are poised to invest their electoral franchise in the PDP as the only political party walking the talks of their wellbeing as against the APC’s mantra of the force of poverty to suppress and repress the people.

“We warn that the APC national secretary, Iyiola Omisore, and his co-travellers in this latest voyage should exercise restraints and stop underestimating the strength and determination of the good people of Osun State.”

The PDP also said that deploying the police to intimidate and harass members of the public would only backfire.

They also urged the IG to resist pressure and disregard any allegations made by the APC against the party, arguing that they are completely unfounded.

The party further requested that President Muhammadu Buhari shines his searchlight on the plots of the APC to disrupt the peace of the state utilizing the police ahead of the forthcoming election.

Also, the PDP urged the IGP to properly investigate APC “political warmongers, whose only route to self-survival is violence and bloodshed,” arguing that the people of Osun should not be taken for granted.