The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chapter in Osun State has cautioned the All Progressives Congress (APC), the state’s opposition party, not to jeopardize the calm that the people of the state currently enjoy.

In a statement released over the weekend in Osogbo, the PDP’s chairman, Hon. Sunday Bisi, denounced what it described as APC attempts “to drag the state back into the dark ages of political assassinations on mundane issues of political differences within the party.”

The PDP administration, led by Governor Ademola Adeleke, will not tolerate any attempt by any political group or association to disrupt the current peace in the state by carrying out heinous assassination attempts on the lives of any individual, regardless of their political party affiliations, according to Bisi, who accused a faction of the rivalry party of hoarding weapons and ammunition.

The chairman stated that in light of the death threats and the state’s rival APC parties’ responses, the warning became necessary.

The ruling party requested that the security authorities remain vigilant about allegations and denials of death threats made by the opposing factions.

“We have always aligned ourselves with the peaceful disposition of the leader of the state, His Excellency, Governor Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke. We align with his views that there can never be meaningful development in an atmosphere of war and bloodshed.

“We appeal to both the aggressors and the bullied caucuses in the opposition fold to sheath their swords and allow peace to reign in the state. A situation where political actors in the APC threaten themselves openly and with reckless abandonment, is unacceptable”.

In response, the state APC claimed that the PDP chairman was misleading the people about the actual status of security under Governor Ademola Adeleke’s leadership.

In a statement released by Chief Kola Olabisi, the party’s director of media and communication, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, the chairman of the All Progressives Party, noted that it was peculiar that a party leader should make such an unguarded accusation about a threat to peace and security.

Lawal observed that people who are familiar with Hon. Sunday Bisi, the statement’s author, might not be too concerned because “no discerning mind could expect something better from him.”

“Is the memory of Sunday Bisi playing him false to the extent that he has forgotten so soon that an appointee of Governor Adeleke, Dauda Olalekan, popularly known as ‘Emir Ajagungbade’ is currently on trial at different courts of the land over alleged murder, kidnapping and terrorism.

“The context of the ill-thought-out statement of the confused state PDP chairman about the conjectured insecurity in the state would be useful for the police and the DSS who should wait no further to invite Sunday Bisi and help their statutory obligations on the issue at stake,” the statement added.