Oyo APC reacts to Igangan killings

Oyo State’s main opposition party All Progressives Congress, APC, has called on the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, to wake up to the reality of insecurity steering the pacesetter state in the face. 

The opposition party made the statement while reacting to Saturday’s overnight killings and burning of many properties in the Igangan area of Ibarapa. 

The APC, according to the statement signed by the party’s Oyo Publicity Secretary, Abdulazeez Olatunde, described the overnight killing and arson on the sleepy community of Igangan as one too many. 

The party lamented the burning of the Palace of Asigangan of Igangan, many innocent lives, and properties like houses and fuel filling stations, and even a lot of ancient archival properties lost in one fell swoop. 

It also queried the essence of the monthly security vote the Governor collects if it could not be channeled towards securing the lives and property of the residents and indigenes of Oyo State.

The party also said that the excuse of general security issues faced by the country has been with the state since 2009 even before the tenure of the then ACN government led by Sen Abiola Ajimobi took over the mantle of governance in 2011, but despite that, Sen Ajimobi was the first Governor of Oyo state to be appreciated with! APPRECIATION AWARDS, right, left, and centre after his tenure because he secured the state. 

 The party urged Governor Makinde to call a security summit in order to find lasting solutions to the security challenges facing Oyo State and forget the rhetorics of having Amotekun and Operation Burst that have shown to be ineffective so far.