October 4, 2023 NewsOrient

Osun State Deputy Governor, Prince Kola Adewusi, has denied allegation that he ordered attack on students of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile Ife.

He described media report of the alleged action as “a carefully prepared diet of fiction, put together by fifth colomnists.”

A statement, entitled, “OAU Protest: Attempt To Disparage Osun Deputy Governor,” signed by Goke Awoyemi, the Press Secretary to Osun State Deputy Governor, reads:

“The attention of the office of the Deputy Governor, Osun State, His excellency, Prince Kola Adewusi, has been drawn to an online report credited to National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), published by the online edition, Osun Defender, insinuating that Prince Kola Adewusi attacked protesting students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-ife, who were protesting the hike in their tuition fee, by sending political thugs to attack them on Tuesday evening.

“I wish to state unequivocally that thuggery and hooliganism have never been associated with Prince Kola Adewusi, Osun State Deputy Governor, before, during and after his rise to political stardom, against his political opponents, not to talk of innocent students who were exercising their fundamental human rights as enshrined in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“The story is a carefully prepared diet of fiction, put together by fifth colomnists with the aim of causing unrest in Osun state and propagated by those who are envious of the cordial relationship that exists between the Deputy Governor, Prince Kola Adewusi, and his peace loving principal, Senator Ademola Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke, who is by the grace of God the Executive Governor of Osun State.

The story should be discontenanced with.”