By Boluwatife Adedokun
The Governorship Election Campaign Council of All Progressives Congress candidate in Osun State, Bola Oyebamiji, popularly known as AMBO, has accused the Accord Party of politicising the killing of a young man in Ikire, Irewole Local Government Area of the state.
The campaign council, in a statement issued on Friday by its Co-chairman on Media and Publicity, Kola Olabisi, described allegations linking members of the APC to the incident as false, fabricated and capable of threatening the peace of the state.
The statement followed the killing of one Kolade Eluyera, said to be the son of a women leader of the Accord Party in Irewole Local Government Area.
According to the APC campaign council, the circumstances surrounding the incident were still under investigation by security agencies, warning political actors against making premature accusations.
“Loading the death of a young man, one Eluyera Kolade, an alleged son of the Accord Party women leader, on some members of our party by the Adeleke re-election campaign council was frivolous, fabricated and a ploy to call a dog a bad name in order to hang it,” the statement read.
The campaign organisation accused the Accord Party of allegedly attempting to gain political advantage from the incident ahead of the August 15, 2026 governorship election in the state.
“It is uncharitable, wicked and inhuman for the campaign committee wing of the re-election bid of Governor Ademola Adeleke to willingly embark on threatening the security of the state out of desperation to sell their candidate,” the statement added.
The APC campaign council also urged the police and other security agencies to conduct a thorough investigation into the killing and prosecute anyone found culpable.
“While we sympathise with the family of the deceased over the loss of the young man, we enjoin the police to do a thorough investigation on the unfortunate incident with a view to bringing to book whoever might have a hand in the killing,” it stated.
The statement maintained that violence and political thuggery had never been associated with the APC, insisting that the party’s governorship candidate remained committed to peaceful politics.
“Our governorship candidate, Asiwaju Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji (AMBO), is a perfect gentleman who cannot hurt a fly and who does not even have desperation in his political dictionary,” the statement said.
The campaign council further alleged that the Accord Party had previously made similar accusations against APC members, including an alleged assassination plot against Adebayo Adeleke, which it claimed was later disproved by police investigation.
“This latest false accusation is a mere replay of their allegation last week against some of our members of planning to assassinate Adebayo Adeleke, alias B-Red, which police investigation proved to be false,” it stated.
The APC campaign organisation also referenced the killing of Remi Abass in Ikire, alleging that political hoodlums linked to the then Peoples Democratic Party, now Accord Party, were responsible for the incident.
“We haven’t forgotten the fact that it was in the same Ikire that the political hoodlums of the defunct PDP that changed its colour to the Accord Party gruesomely murdered Honourable Remi Abass,” the statement alleged.
The campaign council, however, insisted that the ambition of its governorship candidate was not worth the blood of any resident of the state.
“We want to state without mincing words that the political ambition of our governorship candidate is not worth the blood of any person in the society,” the statement added.
