”Lasun Yusuf Arranged Shooting To Blackmail Me” – Oyetola

Gboyega Oyetola governor of Osun State, has alleged that the Labour Party candidate, Hon. Lasun Yusuff, in the July 16 governorship election staged the reported attack and shooting at his residence with the aim of blackmailing his government and denting his image before the public ahead of the poll.

Recall that Lasun Yusuf had alerted that some unknown gunmen invaded his resince in Ilobu, headquarters of Irepodun Local Government Area of the state and attempted to assassinate him.

Lasun disclosed that  the gunmen started shooting at his house, located at Oke-Ima area of the town around 1:00am on Monday and that they operated for about twenty minutes.

Reacting to the development, Governor Oyetola accused Yusuf of raising a false alarm to raise tension ahead of the election. 

Oyetola’s Chief Press Secretary, Ismail Omipidan, while addressing a press conference in Osogbo, said, “Gentlemen, I am sure you’ve been covering election long before now, and I’ve also have the opportunity of covering election, if indeed there was tension in Osun, it is something you will not only see but you will see it.

“This is less than seven days to the election I am not sure there is anxiety or tension anywhere, and so the picture that Hon. Lasun is trying to paint is very unfortunate. Osun remains the most peaceful state in Nigeria and we will do anything as a government to protect and preserve that emblem and status

“The first thing that came to mind is where were his security men? I am aware that as a former deputy speaker, he has security men around him, I am also aware that some of the mobile police men stationed around that same residence on a normal day usually harass innocent passers-by. So I wonder where they were around 2:30am according to Lasun when they attacked. If indeed there was an attack, was there any attempt to repel the attack? Where were the security operatives?

“In any case, Hon Lasun Yusuf, with all due respect and with all sense of responsibility, is not a threat to our candidate, he is not a threat to our governor. This was the man that contested in primary election with Mr Governor few months ago around February or thereabouts, he couldn’t win Irepodun where he comes from, how can somebody who could not win a local government in a primary election suddenly become a threat to a governorship candidate. From all indications, I see it as an attempt not only to blackmail the government but to paint a wrong picture to Nigerians who are outside Osun.

“On behalf of the government, we are calling on the security operatives to please kindly investigate the allegation by Hon Lasun Yusuff because I am tempted to believe that Hon Lasun Yusuff is planning to unleash violence on the innocent people of Irepodun Local Government on the day of election.

“He is therefore using this as an alibi to prepare a ground on what he wants to do,” Ompidan said.

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