The Oyo State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has charged that the state should investigate the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate and the present Senator representing Oyo Central senatorial district, Teslim Kolawole Folarin over the alleged assassination attempt on Honourable Shina Peller’s life.
Oyo state PDP in a press release on Monday and signed by its Publicity Secretary, Akeem Olatunji, noted that Senator Folarin’s alleged involvement in the gruesome death of the former leader of the proscribed transport union, NURTW, in Oyo state, late Lateef Salako (Eleweomo) still remains fresh in the minds of many residents especially members of the proscribed union.
Folarin allegedly made an attempt on his co-party man, Hon. Peller’s life on Sunday morning on his way back to Iseyin before the political thugs were arrested.
The statement added that despite PDP’s efforts on Folarin’s political career, the lawmaker has yet to learn the rudiments of decorous politics as obtainable and practicable in a twenty-first-century society across the globe apart from the senator’s usual show of political hooliganism and his ‘jaagba’ politics using thugs and hired political machineries on perceived opponents such as Hon. Peller.
“Senator Folarin has through his conducts and attitude toward politics continued to bring shame and reputational reproach to our political space in Oyo state in the eyes of others from other parts of Nigeria because he has continued to wallow in self delusion and unrestrained desperation for the number one office in Oyo state.
“We know Folarin’s political history and antecedents including his capabilities in terms of relationship with political thugs which was evident in the Eleweomo’s saga. The news of how ‘Eleweomo’ was gruesomely murdered and his alleged link with the incident still remain fresh in our minds till date. We fully understand his disposition and core beliefs as the king of ‘jagba’ politics wherever he goes but we assure him, there will be no place for him to hide this time should he be found culpable in the assassination attempt on Hon. Peller’s life as alleged because this is purely a security matter.
“We’re also not unmindful of Folarin’s unbridled penchants for tying his political woes to Governor Seyi Makinde’s hard-earned reputation because it is his best way of getting himself into the news. A politician and a serving senator of the federal republic who has been privileged to be beneficiary of political struggles and sacrifices through sweat and blood of others but still refuses to learn the rudiments of playing decorous politics as obtainable and practicable in other saner clime can clearly pass for a misfit and a total failure.
“Instead of providing the people with his three years stewardship so far in the Senate, Folarin continued in his usual manner of political hooliganism of unleashing terror on others perceived to be his opponents, especially in his APC. Thank God those boys the whole world knows as his political thugs have been apprehended by the gallant security agents, we dare Folarin to deny having a connection with them as we await the outcome of further investigations by the police.” PDP stated.