Security Operatives Open Fresh Investigations Against Aregbesola

Fresh facts emerged on Friday as to how Osun State governor; Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, escaped some possible drastic measures from the Federal Government, following revelations that he was allegedly fueling some unconstitutional measures in the state.

A secret service report, which contents, however, got to the hands of politicians two weeks ago, had indicted Aregbesola of perpetrating acts capable of causing religious disharmony in the state, sidelining the nation’s known security operatives in his convoy and replacing them with religious activists.

Though the top hierarchy of the State Security Services(SSS) has instituted investigations into the origin and leakage of the report, it was said that the governor’s decision to visit Abuja last week and meet with top security chiefs might have procured a breather for him.

Some forces within the government were of the view that the governor has copped enough controversy and that based on the security report, his tenure should be terminated through the declaration of a state of emergency. But it was learnt that Aregbesola’s decision to visit the National Security Adviser, the Inspector General of Police and the Director-General of the SSS might have secured the needed breather for him.

“I can tell you that the governor was on the brink, following the revelations contained in the security report. He knew it and his party, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), also knows it. But they pretended as if it is a political fight while moving on their knees to plead with the authorities,” a source said in Abuja on Friday.

Though Aregbesola was quoted as telling a Lagos-based television station that the security report against him was a ruse following his investigations in Abuja, it was confirmed that the governor had to make frantic efforts to dissuade the authorities from moving against him.