The 2023 Osun-Osogbo celebration this year had a number of fatalities, and the state governor Ademola Adeleke has come under fire from the APC’s Osun Chapter for his inaction.

The state administration, according to the Osun APC, had not thought it appropriate to make an official comment regarding the regrettable incident.

On Saturday in Osogbo, the party announced this in a statement that was penned by Tajudeen Lawal, its chairman.

The militarization of the event by non-state players, which led to the deaths, was denounced by Osun APC as well.

A fact check on the incident that resulted in the deaths of the three suspect cultists who were supporters of the state’s Ademola Adeleke-led administration revealed that it was a struggle for supremacy between two groups.

It was also discovered by a credible source close to the centre of the event that two other persons got drowned during the celebration of the  grand finale of the annual Osun Osogbo festival at the Osun River yesterday.

It was, however, strange that 24 hours after the killings of the suspected cultists and the drowning  of two other devotees of the Osun River, the Governor Adeleke-led administration has not deemed it fit to issue an official statement on the unsavoury development.

“I am not surprised that the Adeleke administration is sanguinary and violence-laden as the governor himself relishes in moving with armed  notorious thugs across the state, mainly those who are on the Wanted List of the police.

“Adeleke could not condemn the brutal activities of the thugs as they were those who rigged the last series of elections for him and the other candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) where no fewer than 30 members of the APC were mowed down through the bullets of the PDP political hoodlums.”

While asking the police authority and other statutory  security agencies in the state to investigate the killings on Friday, the Osun APC chairman maintains that the Adeleke administration owed the people of the state an explanation why the government has refused to make any pronouncement on the development which claimed the lives of five persons.

Reports have it that three persons had died and several others injured in a violent clash that erupted during the grand finale if the festival in Osogbo on Friday.

Violence erupted when members of two rival cults clashed inside the Osun grove.