Osun APC Crisis Deepens As Aregbesola Loyalists Arraign In Court For Assault, Conspiracy

The intraparty catastrophe rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State took a model new dimension on Monday when some loyalists of the Minister Of Inside, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, had been arraigned sooner than an Osogbo magistrate Court docket docket for alleged assault and conspiracy.

 

The State Caretaker Secretary of the APC, Hon Rasaq Salinsile and former Chairman of the event, Reverend Adelowo Adebiyi, former Commissioner for Works and Transports, Engr. Kazeem Salami, former Commissioner for Youth, Sports activities actions and Specific Desires, Com. Biyi Odunlade, former Special Adviser to the Governor on Taxation, Barr. Gbenga Akano, a member of the APC in Ilesa, Alaba Popoola and Azeez Adekunle had been moreover arraigned before the court headed by magistrate Olusegun Ayilara.

 

They’d been accused of assaulting one Muideen Ajetunmobi and Usman Lekan on the APC Secretariat on August 14, 2021.

 

Nonetheless the APC chieftains pleaded not accountable to the allegations.

 

Defence Counsels, Abdulfatai Abdulsalam and Muftau Adediran utilized for the bail of the APC chieftains on self recognisance.

 

magistrate Olusegun Ayilara granted bail to Salinsile, Adebiyi, Salami, Odunlade and Akano, on self recognisance in a sum of N5million each.

 

The magistrate moreover admitted Alaba and Adekunle to bail in a sum of N5million with one surety each. The surety ought to each be a civil servant or house proprietor residing contained in the jurisdiction of the magistrate.

 

The case was adjourned till September 24 for level out.