The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the ruling Accord Party in the state for failing to realise that the security of lives and property remains the primary responsibility of all the tiers of government.
In a statement on Tuesday by its Director of Media and Information, Mogaji Kola Olabisi, the state APC reminded the Accord Party of the duty of the local government councils to render support to the police in the fight against crimes in their respective domain.
Recently, the Accord Party, to which Governor Ademola Adeleke belongs, condemned the APC-controlled councils for donating operational vehicles to the police.
Olabisi reacted: ‘We observe that the main problem and pains of the Accord Party is not the laudable policy that the legally-reinstated APC local government council chairmen have already achieved over the plan to help the police in fighting crimes across the state, but the fact that the proactive, patriotic actions of the council executives have succeeded in exposing the Adeleke-led government of grossly lacking in its priority of its constitutional roles to the innocent people of the state.
‘We wonder why a supposed ruling party which is supposed to commend the patriotic efforts of the reinstated APC council executives should be the one to be in the lead in shooting down the good intention of the council chairmen and councillors’.
The APC said that the Accord Party administration in the state should commend councils for being a potent factor in fighting crimes in the state,and not become ‘a clog in the wheel of the patriotic effort for progress in the state’.
Olabisi reminded the governor and his administration that the local council executives ‘remain the legally elected council chairmen in Osun State until they finally exhaust all legal opportunities of their tenure determination’.
