Osun APC condemns amnesty granted to 53 prisoners by Adeleke

OSUN state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday condemned the amnesty recently granted to the 53 prisoners by the Adeleke’s-led government in the state.

The spokesperson of the party, Chief Kola Olabisi who made the condemnation in a press conference in Osogbo, maintained that, the amnesty is suspicious.

According to him, the government is poised to pollute the state with criminals who would later return to their ‘vomit’.

The opposition party however condemned in its entirety the amnesty, it described “as the prerogative of mercy made recently by Governor Adeleke on a police officer, Amien George, who was still standing trial and other 52 convicts, describing the motive as ‘self-serving and ulterior’ to criminalize the state and legitimatize criminality in the state.

In his reaction, the governor’s spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed remarked, “We have to put everything in proper context, the governor does not just wake up to grant pardon what normally happens is that we have what we call State Advisory Council on prerogative of mercy.”

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“It was properly set up, and they sat for days checking each case before they arrived at 53 cases, if APC cannot commend the governor for exercising that power to pardon some people on death row and others if they now pick one out of 53.”

“The governor’s job is to one listen to what the State Advisory Council presented, and the State Advisory Council has done his job very well.”

“If anybody has any issue with any of the pardon inmates or conflict, I think the best is for them to approach the Ministry of Justice. If they know they have a case, they can put up a paper and say, there’s an error if they are sure of themselves, this is not about the governor, the governor has exercises within the context of the law. If they have a particular case out of 53 they thought is wrongly handled, they can approach the justice ministry.”

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