OSOGBO – The PDP in Osun yesterday dissociated the party from the kidnap of Muibat, the wife of the Speaker of Osun House of Assembly, Mr. Najeem Salam.

Mr. Diran Odeyemi, the state PDP Director of Publicity, Media and Strategy, made the clarification in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Osogbo.

NAN recalls that some hoodlums had kidnapped the Speaker’s wife late on Tuesday while returning home from her shop at Oke-Oyo area of Ejigbo in Osun.

Odeyemi dismissed the insinuations in certain quarters that the abductors might be PDP members hoping to settle a political score with the ACN in Osun.

“It is criminal of any right thinking person to think that way.
“The PDP, as one of the opposition parties in the state, is not violent and more so, we don’t have anything to do with the Speaker.

“As a matter of fact, we in the PDP even sympathise with the Speaker for the kidnap of his wife by suspected kidnappers.

“And it is our wish that she comes back home unhurt,” Odeyemi said.

Also speaking, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, the ACN Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy in Osun, urged the Federal Government to tackle the security challenges in the country.

The ACN spokesman urged the state police command to do everything possible in securing the immediate release of Muibat from her captors.

“From available documents at our disposal, the proposed state wishes to cover all Ijaw-speaking inhabitants of Arugbo and Oparama in Ondo, the Ijaws on Edo land and thence to Gbaramatu in Delta and beyond. For purposes of clarification, out of these Ijaw-speaking enclaves, only the Gbaramatu are contiguous. It is therefore inappropriate that such a proposal could be coined to deceive an unsuspecting National Assembly.”