Osun guber: Police reject arrest plot allegation

Osun State Police Command has dismissed allegations by the Imole Campaign Council that it compiled a database of governmental figures for apprehension up of the August 15 governorship election.

The constabulary besides insisted that its operations are aimed solely astatine combating transgression crossed the state.

The allegations were made connected Sunday by The Imole Campaign Council, TICC, which is coordinating the re-election run of Governor Ademola Adeleke. 

The assembly claimed that the constabulary had drawn up a database of 46 individuals, including a serving commissioner, for apprehension earlier the election.

Addressing journalists successful Osogbo, the Deputy Director-General of the run council, Kolapo Alimi, alleged that astir of those listed were from Ikire, the office of Irewole Local Government Area. 

He claimed that the Commissioner for Energy, Ademola Adeyemo, was among those allegedly marked for arrest.

Alimi besides alleged that an Accord chieftain successful Ikire, Taofeek Akinyemi, who was reportedly changeable by hoodlums, was arrested and detained aft reporting the incidental to the police.