By Dapo Akinrefon

The APC and the PDP have exchanged sharp words over an alleged plot by the opposition PDP to frame a former governor of the State, Alhaji Isiaka Adeleke into a fathom plot aimed to embarrass him.

The APC, in a statement by its Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, said “information has just got to the All Progressives Congress from usually reliable sources within the PDP that the opposition party has decided to hide implicating material in or around the residence of Alhaji Isiaka Adeleke, the first governor of the State of Osun.”

Alhaji Isiaka Adeleke

The party alleged that PDP’s plan is to “create an excuse for security operatives from Abuja to come and arrest the APC leader and whisk him away. The plan is to replace their aborted attempt to assassinate him. There is no guarantee that the man may not be assassinated, after arrest.”

Besides, the APC said “When the APC accuses the PDP of anything in the state, they are based on credible information.

“We therefore want every citizen to take seriously this information, that the PDP intends to frame Adeleke in order to get security people from Abuja to come and take him out of circulation. The planned inquisition on APC leaders by Federal authorities leading up to the August 9 governorship election in Osun has started.”

The Omisore Campaign Organisation dismissed the allegation as baseless and a concoction directed to distract the citizenry from the alleged failures of the APC administration.

The campaign’s Director of Media and Publicity, Prince Diran Odeyemi, who spoke with Vanguard, said “I have said it several times that APC should stop accusing PDP of anything. The election is just 30 days away, why don’t they tell the electorate what they have done and what they will do, they should stop accusing the PDP of anything that happens because that is not campaign as far as we are concerned.” “Regarding Adeleke, he has been with us for years but we know within ourselves that he left the party three years ago even before he declared for the APC. Adeleke’s going to the APC was just a formality which we knew. When he left, we celebrated his departure. “

He said the PDP has “nothing against Adeleke, we wish him good luck because we know he cannot deliver Ede. Why should we implicate him? The APC should focus on issue based campaigns rather than engage on campaign of calumny.”