{"id":22291,"date":"2025-02-21T07:08:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T07:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=22291"},"modified":"2025-02-21T07:11:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T07:11:57","slug":"igp-egbetokun-dismisses-adelekes-allegations-on-osun-violence-as-baseless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=22291","title":{"rendered":"IGP Egbetokun Dismisses Adeleke\u2019s Allegations on Osun Violence as Baseless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun has denied allegations made by Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, linking him to the recent violence in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The unrest, which erupted on Monday, reportedly led to the deaths of five individuals following clashes between supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the attempted reinstatement of sacked local government chairpersons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Adeleke accused the IGP of collaborating with the APC to enforce what he described as a \u201cnon-existent court order\u201d reinstating the dismissed officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">In his response on Thursday, Egbetokun dismissed the claims, calling them \u201cillogical\u201d and unworthy of a response.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cI refuse to dignify such absurdity with a reply. However, we will not allow misinformation against us to go unchallenged,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">He clarified that the police only acted in response to a request from the Osun State Commissioner of Police for reinforcement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cWe have strengthened the police presence in Osun to maintain law and order,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Egbetokun urged residents of Osun State to remain calm, continue their daily activities, and uphold the rule of law.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun has denied allegations made by Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, linking him to the recent violence in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8702,10165,10164,10166],"class_list":["post-22291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-allegations","tag-gov-adeleke","tag-igp-egbetokun","tag-osun-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22292,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22291\/revisions\/22292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}