Osun Guber: Group raises alarm over rising insecurity, police neutrality

The Osun Masterminds, TOM, has expressed interest implicit the worsening insecurity successful Osun State ahead of the August 15, 2026 governorship election.

This is arsenic the radical called connected information agencies, governmental parties and electoral stakeholders to guarantee a peaceful, escaped and credible poll.

Speaking during the organisation’s July 2026 State of the State code on Thursday, the Executive Director of TOM, Professor Wasiu Oyedokun-Alli, said the state’s information concern had deteriorated successful caller months, with expanding reports of cult-related violence, equipped governmental thuggery and clashes linked to the predetermination season.

“Residents successful Osogbo, Ede, Ilesa and Ile-Ife present unrecorded nether increasing anxiousness arsenic confrontations involving rival governmental groups and cult gangs progressively hap successful nationalist places, disrupting commercialized activities and threatening nationalist safety,” helium said.

Oyedokun-Alli said the rising insecurity should not beryllium separated from preparations for the governorship election, informing that unchecked unit could discourage elector information and undermine assurance successful the electoral process.

“We dependable a stern enactment of caution to each applicable stakeholders—the State Government, governmental parties, campaigner run structures, section authorities administrators, and information agencies—that the bid and stableness of Osun State indispensable not b...