A Civil Society Organisation (CSO), based in Osun State, the Osun Concerned Citizens (OCC), has alleged that, the state government is sponsoring a protest against the former two terms governor of the state and the current Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola to hold today in Abuja, barring any change of plan.
The CSO, in a press release from its Public Relations Officer (PRO), Comr. Afeez Olakunle, said some government officials have gathered and transported the paid protesters to Abuja for the protest maintaining that the purpose of the protest is to call for the suspension of Aregbesola as earlier demanded by a sponsored group, the Human Rights Writer Association (HRWA).
The group described the planned protest as not only political but reflects the desperate action of Governor Adegboyega Oyetola to pull-down the Minister because of the crisis in the APC, insisting that, “We have it on good authority that the Osun State Government has paid some youths to stage a protest against Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the Minister of Interior, in Abuja, today.
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“The protesters were transported to Abuja yesterday and each of them was given N15,000. They are to call for the suspension of the Minister because of the attack on some Nigeria Correctional Centres.
“This is another desperate move by Governor Oyetola and his people to smear Aregbesola and pull him down politically. We therefore urge President Muhammadu Buhari, security agencies and well-meaning Nigerians not to take the protesters serious because they are agents of the Osun State Government,” the statement concluded.