Segun Sowunmi, an ally of Atiku Abubakar, the former presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has cautioned against a declaration of a state of emergency in Osun State.
Sowunmi argued that if former President Goodluck Jonathan did not declare a state of emergency in Borno State, President Bola Tinubu 's administration should not do so in Osun . Amid the local government crisis in Osun State, the National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Ajibola Basiru, had urged the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in the state.
However, speaking on Channels Television’s programme, Politics Today, Sowunmi dismissed the idea, saying: 'There were rumours that some people are deceiving themselves with talk of declaring a state of emergency in Osun. 'For what and why? Jonathan did not declare a state of emergency when the Vice President was governor in Borno, even with all the shenanigans of Chibok and everything that happened.
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