Osun State Government has denied plotting to assassinate the minister of interior and ex-governor of the state Rauf Aregbesola amid his feud with Governor Gboyega Oyetola.
Special adviser to Oyetola on political matters, Sunday Akere, on Tuesday said such claims were false.
Abiodun Agboola, the publicity secretary of a faction in the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress which is loyal to Aregbesola, had in a statement said, “We wish to inform the general public and security agencies of a plot to kill the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, by default by the state government-sponsored political thugs.
“We say by default because the plan is to lay ambush for the minister’s entourage and deal it massive attacks on his way to visit Iwo on Tuesday.”
However, while addressing party members at the residence of Bisi Akande in Ila-Oragun area of the state, Akere said that there was no truth in the claim, adding that some political hoodlums were only trying to cause crisis in the state.
“There is no truth in the claim that there are plans to assassinate Aregbesola,” he said.
