Petition: Invite Sowunmi for questioning, Ogun APC tells Police

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Petition: Invite Sowunmi for questioning, Ogun APC tells Police

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ogun State, on Thursday, urged the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun to invite a governorship aspirant, Mr Segun Sowunmi for questioning, over his petition and alleged plot to cause a breakdown of law and order in the state.

The party also accused Sowunmi of alleged intention “to cause unnecessary tension in the State by raising false alarm and making baseless allegations.”

Reacting to Sowunmi’s petition, the State Assistant Publicity Secretary of the party, Olusola Ogunsanya Blessed, in a statement, faulted Sowunmi’s petition to the Inspector General of Police.

The party said: “Save for the necessity to further expose the chameleonic nature of Segun Sowunmi, the notorious political jobber and professional liar in Ogun State, in the interest of new residents of the State who might not be aware of his character, we would ordinarily have ignored the attention-seeker in his latest ranting anchored on mischief.

“However, the virus of his maniacal plot may have mistakenly infected unsuspecting members of the society, hence the need for a robust response to his pathological lies in order to once again unmask the unstable soul for the blatant fraud that he is.

“Every discerning member of the public is aware and will recollect the incident of Monday, 5th June, 2023, outside the gate of the Magistrate’s Court at Isabo, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, where the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal is sitting. On that day, Segun Sowunmi, in his accustomed hauteur, was trying to gain forceful entry into the premises of the court after proceedings had already commenced and the gate shut for security reasons following the directive of members of the Tribunal.

“It was this arrogant and uncultured attitude exhibited by Sowunmi that infuriated supporters of different political parties who had also come late to the venue and were denied entry. In fact, eyewitnesses confirmed that members of PDP were those that championed the violent reaction against Sowunmi’s utter lack of decorum.

“These PDP members were said to have accused Sowunmi of double standards and betrayal of trust, saying he was just trading among different political parties, busy collecting money from Baba Adebutu and pretending to be supporting his son’s governorship ambition when in actual fact he was only doing his business as usual.

“That Sowunmi immediately changed the narrative and quickly rushed to the press to lie against Governor Dapo Abiodun, accusing him of being the brain behind the alleged attack. This did not come as a surprise to the majority of people, especially the political elite in the State who are well aware that he is one garrulous personality with zero integrity.

“Sowunmi is exactly like the biblical Esau who is ready to trade his birthright for anything, no matter how small; he stands for nothing and is ready to fall for anything provided there is filthy lucre.

“Sowunmi ‘s antecedents and public image are that of an unrepentant and lousy political jobber looking for who to exploit and stampede into ‘settlement’ through cheap blackmail.

“It is, therefore, imperative that the Acting Inspector General of Police, Mr. Kayode Egbetokun, whom he had earlier contacted through a frivolous petition, should invite him for questioning, especially on the intention to cause unnecessary tension in the State by raising false alarm and making baseless allegations.

“Although there is hardly anyone in the State who does not know Sowunmi’s trademark of mischief-making, however, he must be cautioned and strongly warned against disturbing the peace of the State. It is crystal clear that with the assumption of office of Governor Dapo Abiodun in the State in 2019, the era of political violence and thuggery has gone. Let no Sowunmi reinvent one out of his confused imagination.

“Sowunmi, having failed in his paid bid to heat up the polity in Ogun State, is becoming more desperate by the day. The media practitioners, are especially advised to be more discerning in dealing with a well-known rabble rousing character like Sowunmi, in order to avoid complicity, gullibility and culpability, for which ignorance may not be an acceptable excuse.

“It is important to state that several tribunal sittings are on going in the same court premises including the assembly the House of Representatives and senatorial they have even been bringing witnesses the governorship has sat four times since the Sowunmi staged confrontation all without any incident!!! Sowunmi continues to cry wolf as he acts out a script of his paymasters.”