Lawmaker representing Ijesa South Federal Constituency, Hon. Sanya Omirin, has resigned his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Omirin, the federal lawmaker, like Senator Adenigba Fadahunsi (Osun East), Senator Olubiyi Fadeyi (Osun Central), and Hon. Taofeek Abimbola Ajilesoro, representing Ife Federal Constituency, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC).
A check by WITHIN NIGERIA revealed that the Osun State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lost two senators, namely Adenigba Fadahunsi and Olubiyi Fadeyi, and three federal lawmakers, namely Oluwole Oke (Ijesa North), Taofeek Abimbola Ajilesoro (Ife Federal Constituency), and Sanya Omirin (Ijesa South).
Political analysts have opined that these defections would likely cause a major political shake-up in the state, particularly in the Osun East Senatorial District, in regard to the upcoming 2026 gubernatorial election in the state.
APC CALLS FOR INTERROGATION OVER POLITICAL KILLINGS IN IJESA LAND
In July 2024, the Osun State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) asked the police to investigate and interrogate the involvement of the lawmaker representing Ijesa-South Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Sanya Omirin.
This request was made by the party chairman via a statement after commending the police for the arrest of one of the dangerous thugs of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Olabode Owoeye, notoriously known as “Bode Itaapa.
The party also cautioned that no stone should be left untouched in prosecuting all the criminals behind the dastardly killings of the supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The party in her release also claimed that Hon. Sanya Omirin was mentioned as the mastermind of the heinous activities that raised their ugly heads in the last elections in the state.
The statement reads in full:
Osun APC to Police: INTERROGATE SANYA OMIRIN OVER POLITICAL KILLINGS IN IJESALAND
The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has thumbed up the state police command over the arrest of one of the dangerous thugs of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Olabode Owoeye notoriously known as “Bode Itaapa,” cautioning that no stone should be left untouched in prosecuting all the criminals behind the dastardly killings of the supporters of the APC, just as the the opposition party appealed to the police to investigate the involvement of the lawmaker representing Ijesa-South Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon Sanya Omirin, who was mentioned as the mastermind of the heinous activities that raised their ugly heads in the last elections in the state.
Owoeye, the Osun State PDP daredevil thug, who was paraded by the police at the state police command on Wednesday, was said to have earlier volunteered a statement depicting him as being responsible for the killings of some of the APC members and supporters in the state during the 2022 governorship and the 2023 general elections at the instance and directive of Omirin.
The APC had cried out ceaselessly before and after the elections that the elections were not free, fair, and credible, as no fewer than 30 members of the opposition members and supporters were gunned down by the PDP janjaweed.
It is also on record that Omirin had boasted at a political meeting before the elections that he would use maximum violence to win the elections, just the way and manner he had been using similar obnoxious, inhuman, and wicked means to win elections for the candidates of his party in the past.
In his comment on the development, the Osun State chairman of the APC, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, in a statement issued by the party’s Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi, today, stated that the confessional statement of Bode Itaapa to be responsible for the killings in Ijesaland in general and Atakumosa-East in particular has vindicated the APC on its claim that the elections weren’t free or fair.Lawal, who commended the police for doing a marvelous job, enjoined the law enforcement agents to get to the root of the matter by instantly inviting Hon. Sanya Omirin to clear his name on the criminal matter, as a lawmaker must be seen to be aboveboard on any issue of criminality.
The state APC chairman explained that it was imperative for the police to extend their investigative dragnets on the matter by arresting and prosecuting all the suspects mentioned in the killings of the APC members, if only to serve as a deterrent in the future elections.
According to the Osun State APC chairman, “When we were insisting that the PDP didn’t play by the rules during the last elections in the state, some people did not believe our allegations.
But now that the truth is coming out, it is obvious that all the PDP candidates who later won the controversial elections, the results of which fraudulently catapulted them into various elected and appointed political offices, are stepping on the blood of the innocent members of our party.
“I am also imploring the police to take care of the safety of Bode Itaapa, as some of the names of his other PDP sponsors would shake the state to its foundation.”
It is wicked of the PDP members and chieftains in Ijesaland that they can afford to feel comfortable with the shedding of the blood of the fellow Ijesa natives for political reasons.”
That Bode Itaapa, a PDP member and thug, could be callous and inconsiderate enough to have confessed to working in cahoots with Adefioye Solomon, a.k.a. ‘Solo Iwara,’ and Samuel David to kill our member, Ibrahim Taiwo Adebiyi, a.k.a. ‘Omo Alaja,’ at Eti-Oni in Atakumosa-East Local Government Council Area of the state; two miners, Kelechi Agha and Tega Robinson, shot Hon. Ayodeji Olaolu, an APC House of Representatives aspirant in the 2023 election, in the head and chest, should be a verifiable cause of action for his arraignment without further delay.”
For God’s sake, Bode Itaapa does not deserve to be living among human beings. What he could be doing with a locally made Barreta pistol with live cartridges, one single-barreled gun, one pump-action gun, face masks, and charms if he is not a fugitive from justice remains a source of worry to any right-thinking members of the society.”
I am also urging the police to intensify their investigation with a view to verifying the entity that owns a private security outfit guarding the mining site in Iperindo and environs that lured the political thugs with motorcycles and jumbo pay to encourage them to attack members of the public.”
Once again, on behalf of our party, the APC in Osun State, I am giving kudos to the police over their relentless effort to fish out the criminals whose nefarious activities have been disturbing the peace of the state,” Lawal stated.
On Wednesday, WITHIN NIGERIA contacted Tajudeen Lawal, the chairman of the Osun State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC). All efforts to reach out to the party chairman proved abortive.
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