A statement by the party's Osun State Caretaker Committee Chairman, (CTC) Dr Akindele Adekunle on Saturday, called on well-meaning Nigerians, especially traditional institutions to warn Governor Oyetola to stay alive to his primary responsibilities to the state and stop stoking violent attacks on the residents.
The Peoples Democratic Party has accused the outgoing government of the All Progressives Congress, APC of stoking violent attacks in parts of Osun State, especially in Ede, the hometown of the governor-elect, Senator Ademola Adeleke.
A statement by the party's Osun State Caretaker Committee Chairman, (CTC) Dr Akindele Adekunle on Saturday, called on well-meaning Nigerians, especially traditional institutions to warn Governor Oyetola to stay alive to his primary responsibilities to the state and stop stoking violent attacks on the residents.
In the statement titled, “Overcome woes of your electoral defeat, face your duty and stop violent attacks - Osun PDP berates Oyetola," it warned that if nothing urgent was done to prevent the violent attacks, there could be reprisals from victims' relatives with attendant escalations that could be better imagined.
The PDP described the orchestrated attacks as highly unfortunate, wicked and embarrassing of a rejected government, trying to vent it's frustration on innocent citizens.
According to the statement, "pockets of violent attacks were on Friday reported in Ede North Local Government, where hoodlums apparently working for the defeated APC descended on members of the Peoples Democratic Party who had converged for a routine ward meeting in the town.
"The ward meeting involved the minority leader of the Osun State House of Assembly, Akogun Babajide Kofoworola."
It added, "Preliminary reports reaching the State Chapter of the PDP confirmed that several people were killed in the attack, including a one-year-old baby, who was forcefully removed from the back of her mother and slaughtered by the hoodlums.
"Houses belonging to the Minority Leader, Hon Kofoworola were also razed, with the whereabouts of his father, who was inside one of the house as at the time of the attack, remained unknown."
The statement partly read, "The PDP wishes to call on Mr Gboyega Oyetola led APC government, not to allow frustration of the defeat suffered at the recently concluded Governorship Election to eat deep into fabrics of governance in the state, or at least, resign immediately if the defeated governor has so much lost his bearing as chief security officer of the state.
"The PDP enjoins the good people of Osun State to remain calm and be vigilant as the party will work with relevant security agencies to bring perpetrators of the heinous crime to justice.
"Security agencies are also enjoined to as a matter of duty and professional proactivity, set machineries in motion to arrest the rising wave of violence in the state, in which citizens are being assassinated in broad daylight with brazen audacity.
"This is with a view to preventing violent reprisals from victims' relatives and attendant escalations.
"The PDP further calls on Nigerians, especially traditional institutions to rein in on the defeated governor of Osun State, Mr Gboyega Oyetola to stay alive to his primary responsibilities to the state and stop stoking violent attacks on innocent residents, whose verdict at the poll had obviously gone the wrong side of his expectations."