Osun 2014: Soldiers seal off Nelson Mandela Park in Osogbo

Information reaching NewsGenesis says that the Nelson Mandela Freedom Park, Osogbo has been locked up by both military and police officers, apparently to stop a rally organised by Labour movement in the state to endorse Gov. Aregbesola, the APC candidate for the Saturday guber election.
We gathered that the organised Labour in Osun State had officially applied for and got approval for the use of the park for its rally prior to the closure.
The story however changed on the morning of Wednesday, 6th August, 2014, when a troop of soldiers and police officers stormed the park, informing its management that they were acting on “orders from above” to stop all activities from taking place there “for now”.

Barrister Kunle Oyatomi, the Osun All Progressives Congress (APC’s) Director of Publicity, Strategy and Research, while reacting to the development said thus; “we understand that the Federal Government was frightened by the magnitude of the mega rally of the APC which is the biggest scene so far in the history of campaign in the state. Citizens are therefore advised not to put themselves in harm’s way by confronting the soldiers. They should move on and reassemble somewhere else. The people of the State of Osun will not submit to oppression and intimidation,”

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