The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun State has accused the Amotekun Corps in the state of being a political arm of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, government.

The party alleged that the Governor Ademola Adeleke administration is using the security agency to oppress, suppress and victimise members of the opposition party in the state.

Making these allegations during a press conference held to address the alleged extra judicial activities of Osun Amotekun against their members, APC also called on President Bola Tinubu and the security agencies to urgently come to the aid inhabitants of Osun State.

Osun APC Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi accused the Adeleke administration of using the agency as a decoy to arm the party’s political thugs with a directive to unleash terror on the members of the opposition and their supporters.

He said, “It was gathered that the Governor Adeleke-led administration is using a decoy to arm the party’s political thugs with a directive to unleash terror on the members of the opposition and their supporters.

“Information has it that the leadership of the PDP in the state specifically sent words to the leaderships of the ruling party in all the local government council areas to forward the names of the hardened political thugs in their constituencies with a view to recruiting them for political terrorism against the opposition.

“The chiefs were arrested last Tuesday and granted administrative bail but were later invited and re-arrested on Sunday by the retired Chief Superintendent of Police who at a time acted as the Chief Security Officer to Governor Adeleke, Field Commander of Amotekun Corps, Mr Adekunle Omoyele, who has a history of human rights violation while in service and was gravely indicted and recommended for prosecution and demotion by the Report on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and other matters.

“The number of the anomalies traceable to the Amotekun nefarious activities under Omoyele is legendary ranging from the recruitment of thugs, cultists and dismissed police officers; usurpation of police constitutional roles through unlawful arrest, detention and prosecution of innocent citizens; economic sabotage through interception, arrest and extortion of trailers of rice coming into the state thereby creating economic hardship through price rises of the food stable; illegal dabbling into marital issues; rivaling and ridiculing the police and other security agencies; and illegal arrests and extortion of gold miners thereby causing blockades to state revenue generation.”

The Osun APC said it is disturbing that Amotekun Corps members are now criminalising the community leaders because of politics, a development capable of outrightly complicating the security situation of the area.