Impeachment: Scores Of Osun Citizens To Rally Against Aregbesola Today

Scores of Osun State citizens were yesterday said to be
warming up towards participating in today’s rally in support of Governor Rauf
Aregbesola’s impeachment, according to the organisers, Civil Societies’
Coalition for Emancipation of Osun State, CSCEO.

According to the group at a press briefing held in Osogbo
yesterday, over 20 civil and faith based societies who are members of CSCEO are
already mobilising their members towards the mass rally.

The group’s Chairman, Comrade Adeniyi Sulaiman Alimi, gave
the names of association ready for the rally as The Voices, KIMPACT, Centre for
Human Rights and Social Justice, Grassroot Democratic Network, Christian
Initiative for Nation Building, Christian Leadership Mobilisation and Better
Future Initiative. Others are Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP), Justice,
Development and Peace Commission Movement (JDPCM), Positive Movement, Good
Governance Support Group, Democratic Socialist Movement and Conference of
National Political Parties (CNPP).

Alimi explained that over three petitions including the one
sent by a state serving judge, Justice Folaranmi Oloyede, calling for Aregbesola’s
probe and impeachment are presently before members of the state House of
Assembly and the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC).

Meanwhile, the All Progressives Congress in the state has
called on security agencies to hold the governorship candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party, Senator Iyiola Omisore and his party responsible for any
breach of the peace in the state.