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Osun APC Alleges Governor Adeleke’s Involvement in Unlawful Arrest: Demands Probe of His CSO Adefisoye, 8 Others

Published by Tope Fakinlede on August 7th, 2025.

Osun APC Alleges Governor Adeleke’s Involvement in Unlawful Arrest: Demands Probe of His CSO Adefisoye, 8 Others

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The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the complicity of the Chief Superintendent of Police(CSP) Adefisoye Kazeem, the Chief Security Officer to the state Governor Ademola Adeleke, in connivance with OC-SWAT under the Oyo State Police Command, to perpetrate a breach of professional code of conduct, abuse of office, unlawful, illegal arrest, detention, human rights abuse of Mr Rasaq Dolapo Gafar, a member of the party in Osun State.

It was learnt that on the 4th of August, 2025, at about 4:00 pm, the CSP Adefisoye and other unknown police officers numbering about eight drawn from the Osun State Government House were fully masked stormed the Zenith Bank Nig. Plc at Ring Road, Ibadan, Oyo State where Gafar works and physically manhandled, unlawfully and forcefully arrested him without any prior invitation extended to him.

Gafar was arrested in a militia and Gestapo manner and thereafter taken to the Divisional Police Headquarters, Orita Challenge but the DPO refused to detain him on the premise that the arrest was unlawful and illegal.

The purported suspect was subsequently taken to the SWAT office of the Nigeria Police Force, Ibadan, where he was further physically manhandled, detained, dehumanised in clear breach of his fundamental right.

Information also has it that the petition that led to the unlawful, illegal arrest and detention of Gafar was strangely initiated, written and signed by the CSP Adefisoye Kazeem, the CSO to Governor Adeleke, which is a clear breach of professional Code of Conduct as a serving police officer under the Osun State Police Command.

The purported suspect who is a member of our party in Osun State was denied access to his phone, disallowed from contact from his lawyer and hastily under duress arraigned at the Chief Magistrate’s Court, Ibadan, Oyo State on the 5th of August, 2025.

It was worrisome that Governor Adeleke’s CSO in connivance with the unknown masked eight police officers from the Osun State Government House perfected all the plans by unlawfully and illegally arresting and detaining our member despite the fact that the matter was purely devoid of criminality.

Based on the foregoing, we are imploring the Inspector-General of Police to investigate the unprofessional conduct and illegal activities of the CSP Adefisoye Kazeem, the CSO to the Osun State Governor Adeleke and the other unknown police officers serving under the Osun State Government House, whose actions have dented the image of the Nigeria Police Force.

We, as a party, would like to demand for the immediate punishment and transfer of the CSP Adefisoye Kazeem out of the Osun State Police Command in order to halt his being used as an agent of political victimisation by the governor against the members of our party.

It is worthwhile to point out that the illegal policing activities of the CSO to Governor Adeleke is a clear danger to the prosperity of democratic governance and such are antithetical to the neutrality posture of the national statutory security service during the administration of the democracy-loving President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Further investigation revealed that it was an illegal operation that the CSP Adefisoye and his team went to perform in Oyo State.

It was also learnt that the Governor Adeleke CSO who led the illegal operation to arrest Gafar in Oyo State had since been demobilised to the Osun State Command since his promotion to the DSP but he refused to leave the Government House.

It was also gathered that Adefisoye favoured the choice of SWAT because the OC of the special police squad is his kinsman who hails from Idanre, Ondo State and willingly collaborated with him to carry out the dirty and illegal operation.

It was also gathered that during the process of the illegal arrest of Gafar by the Adeleke CSO, he disclosed that his team had been on the trail of the purported suspect for two weeks and that other members of the Osun State APC media team like Mogaji Kola Olabisi, Kehinde Ayantunji, Waheed Adekunle, Bada Mayowa Wasiu, Adedeji Adebayo, Akin Adeyi and others are on the arrest list of the Governor Adeleke CSO.

The pliable OC-SWAT lied that the arrest of Gafar was effected based on a signal from Abuja which a fast-check proved to be a lie.

We are passionately pleading with the Inspector-General of Police to give this professional anomaly affecting the image of the Nigeria Police Force an urgent attention with a view to flushing out the bad eggs from the force and retain its glory.

The CSP Adefisoye has turned himself into a willing tool of oppression, victimisation and attack on the members of the opposition who do not share the political ideal of his principal, Governor Adeleke.

e-SIGNED:

Sooko TAJUDEEN LAWAL, Chairman, Osun State APC.