The OSUN state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday condemned the amnesty recently granted to the 53 prisoners by the Adeleke-led government in the state.
The party's spokesperson, Chief Kola Olabisi, who made the condemnation at a press conference in Osogbo, said the amnesty is suspicious.
According to him, the government is about to contaminate the state with criminals who will then return to their “vomit.”
The opposition party, however, condemned the amnesty in its entirety, calling it “like the prerogative of clemency recently granted by Governor Adeleke to a police officer, Amien George, who was still on trial and 52 other convicts, calling the motive as 'interesting'. and subsequent' to criminalize the State and legitimize criminality in the State.
Reacting, the governor's spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, said: “We have to put everything in proper context, the governor does not just wake up to grant pardon, what normally happens is that we have what we call the State Advisory Council on the prerogative of clemency”. .”
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“It was set up properly and they sat for days reviewing each case before reaching 53 cases, if APC cannot praise the governor for exercising that power to pardon some people sentenced to death and others if they now choose one out of 53.”
“The governor's job is to listen to what the State Advisory Council presented, and the State Advisory Council has done its job very well.”
“If anyone has a problem with any of the pardoned prisoners or any conflict, I think it is best to approach the Ministry of Justice. If they know they have a case, they can put a piece of paper and say, there is a mistake if they are sure of themselves, this is not the governor's, the governor has exercises within the context of the law. “If they have a particular 53 case that they consider to be poorly handled, they can go to the Ministry of Justice.”