While the PDP in a statement endorsed by its state chairman, Alhaji Gani Olaoluwa, urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) not to sweep the allegation under the carpet, the government described the allegation as wild, unfounded and part of the game plans by some people to tarnish the image of the governor.
The development followed speculations that the son of the governor, Mr Kabir Aregbesola, was allegedly arrested on Tuesday, by security agencies at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport with undeclared huge sums of money said to be over $1 million.
Reacting on the issue, the state government in a statement signed by the Governor’s director, bureau of communications and strategy, Mr Semiu Okanlawon, described the allegation as ridiculous and baseless.
According to the statement, “it has become pertinent to inform Nigerians and others generally that there is no iota of truth in the story being peddled around by some misguided elements, claiming that a son of Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun, Kabir Aregbesola, was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, today Tuesday May 12, 2015 with a huge sum of money in foreign currencies.
“We have discovered the authors of the wicked and malicious lie are doggedly pursuing their agenda by engaging in an aggressive push for the falsehood to reach a larger population especially using the social media.”
“The younger Aregbesola neither travelled anywhere nor had any encounter with any security personnel today (Tuesday). It is obvious the evil minds at work are out to drag an innocent young man’s name into this dirt in order to get at his father.”
But, the PDP in its statement contended that Kabiru was allegedly arrested at the departure wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport with the lump sum of money that was not cleared but stocked in his luggage, despite his father owing workers over six months salaries.
It reads in part, “we are charging the EFCC and other security agencies to ensure that the matter is not swept under the carpet. Kabiru should be made to face the music because he had been serving as a conduit pipe for the governor to siphon Osun State’s resources.
“The world would recall that Kabiru got the contract for the failed Opon Imo, among others. We wonder how a governor can be so insensitive to the plight of his workers while his son is busy with money laundering business. Is this the change the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been shouting about?”
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