The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola
has addressed the alleged plot by
gunmen to assassinate him on Monday in
Osogbo, Osun State.
Aregbesola alleged that unknown gunmen
attacked his convoy as he approached th
popular Old Garage junction in Osogbo
before his security personnel, drawn from
the Department of State Security, Police
and other security personnel from the
Paramilitary services, professionally
responded to the daring attackers who
were armed with diverse sophisticated
weapons.
In a statement by Aregbesola’s media
adviser, Sola Fasure, the sponsors of the
evil plot have resorted to smearing his
name after having failed to achieve their
mission.
Aregbesola accused the Osun State government of plotting chaos in the state during the All Progressives Congress governorship primary and blaming it on his integrity. He alleged that the current administration in Osun State is planning with an array of one-man pseudo-non-governmental organizations. The statement said, “Having failed to achieve their mission of killing the minister on Monday, the sponsors of the evil plot have now resorted to smearing his name, hoping to achieve through the back door, what they can’t get fairly on the field. “The Minister, just like other Nigerians, also has the democratic right of association as enshrined in our constitution. This, in our opinion, doesn’t deserve the murder of any Nigerian, talk- less of a serving minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. “The State Government of Osun, in particular, has mounted a campaign of calumny against the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) because they were providing security for some citizens in Osun while they hold meetings and warded off attacks against them,” he added