How Jonathan’s Security Agents Attempted To Overrun Osun Govt House
If not for the strong will of the electorate and divine intervention, the machinery of the (PDP), with active support by the Federal Government through the presidency, was to enact a chain of events that would have, in the worst scenario, warranted the declaration of a state of emergency by President Goodluck Jonathan in the State of Osun.
OSUN DEFENDER gathered from authoritative sources within the PDP, how days before the August 9, 2014 gubernatorial election, the leadership of the party resolved to have the sitting governor and All Progressives Congress candidate in the election, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, arrested along with his deputy on the eve of the election.
The meeting, which was held at the private residence of a chieftain of the party in Osogbo, had the current serving Minister for Police Affairs, Mr. Jelili Adesiyan and the Minister of State for Defence, Mr Musiliu Obanikoro, as well as other prominent chieftains of the party in the South-West geo-political zone of the country in attendance.
Days before the election, several events unfolded to the teeming populace in the state over the PDP’s determination to win the election at whatever cost.
One of such events was the attitude put up by the newly-deployed Commissioner of Police for the election purpose, who refused to work contrary to protocol, as he refused to pay any courtesy visit on the governor as expected of him.
According to the impeccable source, the official residence of the governor at Oke-Fia was to be invaded by some militants from the Niger Delta in DSS and Police uniforms to effect the governor and his deputy’s arrest on the eve of the election.
The medium’s findings however revealed that on the night before the election, precisely at about11.00pm, two trucks loaded with men in anti-riot mobile policemen uniform made frantic attempt to invade the Government House located at Oke-Fia Area of the state capital but were prevented from gaining entry by the governor’s security men, who stood their ground to challenge the attempt to have a sitting governor and his deputy arrested despite their immunity.
Reliable sources around the Government House revealed that the altercation between the invading security operatives and the governor’s security aides nearly led to a shoot-out between the two forces.
On seeing that the governor’s security apparatus was not ready to shift ground, the invading PDP-sponsored security agents shamefully retreated and left to embark on other assignments of getting some identified APC chieftains out of circulation before the morning of election.
Not done with the arrest plan for the governor and his deputy, these same soldiers of invasion stopped the deputy governor’s vehicle on election day, as she was going for her accreditation at her polling booth, along a popular street in the state capital and was promptly arrested but not detained, thereby making nonsense of the immunity clause in the nation’s constitution.
(Source: Osun Defender)
