The Imole Campaign Council has called on the Osun State Police Command to release the complete, unedited confessional statements and video recordings of the suspect arrested over the alleged assassination attempt on the Director-General of the AMBO Campaign Organisation, Hon. Wole Oke.
Addressing journalists on Sunday at Imole Media Centre, the spokesperson of the council, Pelumi Olajengbesi, said a video circulating in the public domain had raised fresh questions about the police investigation into the alleged assassination plot.
According to him, the video contradicts the narrative earlier presented by the Osun State Police Command during the parade of the suspects and reinforces the council’s position that innocent people and leaders of the Accord Party were deliberately targeted for political reasons.
The campaign council demanded that the Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Gotan, immediately make public all unedited confessional statements and video recordings obtained from the suspects from the point of arrest to the conclusion of their interrogation.
Olajengbesi said Nigerians deserved to know the truth rather than what he described as carefully selected narratives designed to achieve political objectives.
The council also questioned why the police publicly claimed that influential individuals were mentioned in the alleged plot while withholding the actual confessional statements from the public, arguing that the development had undermined public confidence in the neutrality and professionalism of the police.
It warned that if the police commissioner failed to release the materials, Nigerians would conclude that he had allowed himself to be used in a politically motivated attempt to smear innocent citizens and manipulate public opinion.
The Imole Campaign Council called on the Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, and the Police Service Commission to intervene by ordering an independent review of the investigation and ensuring that any officer found to have compromised the integrity of the Force is held accountable.
The council also urged the police to immediately arraign the suspect before a court of competent jurisdiction if it believed any offence had been committed.
According to Olajengbesi, information available to the campaign council indicated that Hon. Wole Oke was mounting pressure on the police to grant the suspect administrative bail in an attempt to prevent the matter from being tested in open court.
He maintained that if the police had credible evidence against the suspect, there was no justification for shielding the matter from judicial scrutiny, insisting that the only lawful course of action was to prosecute the case before a competent court.
The Imole Campaign Council reaffirmed its commitment to peaceful and issue-based politics, stating that it would continue to resist what it described as attempts to weaponise state institutions against political opponents. It added that the emergence of the suspect’s confessional video marked the beginning of the truth and pledged to resist any effort to suppress it.
