As we speak, spanning from Friday through the entire weekend, at least 25 states of the federation were left without a commissioner of police. They were all deployed to Osun State to do the president’s bidding. Reports confirmed that 32 Commissioners, 36 Deputy Commissioners, and 51 Assistant Commissioners descended upon a state with a mere 1,906,390 eligible voters. This was supplemented by an intimidating machinery of political heavyweights — the Senate President, ministers, governors, and presidential aides — acting as the semiotics of a Villa muscle-flexing designed to dismantle the state-level opposition.
Osun: The mourning after, By Festus Adedayo
