Commissioner’s utterances: Journalist petitions police, security service over alleged threat to life

The Editor of Encounter online newspapers,  Michael-Azeez Ogunsiji has raised alarm over threat to his life, following a recent publication on how the Ogun State Commissioner of Youth and Sports, Dr Kehinde Oluwadare tongue lashed former Governor Olusegun Osoba.

Penpushing reports that, the Commissioner in the published story with audio evidence described Osoba, a leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as a failure while and outside ofice alleging that, he could not produce political lieutenants.

The Commissioner, while reacting to the story, attempted to deny the report and threatened to drag the journalist and the newspapers to court, but later dawned on him, when the audio evidence  exposed him, which prompted  the Governor to  disown him over his loose talk.

Penpushing further reports that, few days after, the editor of the newspapers became a subject of surveillance under the watch of some ‘faceless’ people, prompting him to raised alarm and petitioned the Ogun State Police Command and Director of State Security Service.

The Editor through his lawyer, Barrister Kayode Akinsola of Queens Attorneys in the three pages petition said he has since the news broke, been seeing unknown persons and suspicious movements around him especially while driving.

Penpushing also reports that, Ogunsiji however appealed to all security agencies in the state to urgently  protect him from the unknown men who are trailing him, while  the lawyer wrote in the   petition, ‘we act as counsel to Mr. Ogunsiji Michael- Azeez, the publisher Encounter News Online, hereinafter referred to him as our client and on whose behalf this petition is written’.

“It is our client’s brief that on Tuesday, 10th March, 2020, the Honorable Commissioner for Youth and Sports in Ogun state received in his office a delegation of the League of Registered Political Parties who are on a courtesy visit to his office in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

“Our Client further briefed us that, the Hon. Commissioner during this meeting made several unsavoury comments about the former Governor of Ogun state, Aremo Olusegun Osoba among other things’, the counsel emphasised.

“Hence, our client has been receiving anonymous calls since Monday 16th March, 2020 of many threats to his life and family which would not be unconnected to the report on the Commissioner for Youth and Sports in Ogun state, Dr Kehinde Oluwadare’.

‘It came like a rude shock to our client to have noticed four motorbikes carrying some suspected thugs and running after our client car at Kobiti area in Abeokuta, At about 7:43pm on 17the March 2020. Sequel to the foregoing, and as an Agency of the government that is saddled with the responsibility of maintaining law and order, we most humbly implore you to kindly use your good office to investigate and prosecute (if found culpable) the activities of the Hon. Commissioner for Youth and Sports in Ogun State before the situation takes away the life of our client.”