PDP Candidate Accuses Oyo Govt of Cover-Up in Adelabu Kidnap Hideout Demolition

 – A major political crisis has hit Oyo State following serious allegations of an institutional cover-up leveled against the state government over its decision to flatten the criminal hideout where the sister of former Minister of Power, Chief Adebayo Adelabu, was held captive.

​Hon. Samson Opeyemi Fatola, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the Ibadan Northwest/Ibadan Southwest Federal Constituency, has publicly accused the administration of orchestrating a deliberate cover-up by racing to demolish the Lako Community bungalow less than 48 hours after the victims were rescued.

​The property, located in the Oluyole Local Government Area, served as the operational base for the gang that abducted Mrs. Olaide Busayo Adegoke John-Paul and her 12-year-old twin sons. While the state government celebrated the rescue and immediately dispatched bulldozers to level the structure under its "zero-tolerance" policy, Hon. Fatola, popularly known as "Te s’oju e," contends that the lightning-fast demolition was designed to bury damning information and halt deeper investigations.

​"By reducing the building to rubble while the investigation is still active, the government has effectively destroyed a critical crime scene," the PDP flagbearer declared.

​Hon. Fatola argued that the hasty move completely wiped out critical forensic evidence, preventing investigators from tracking fingerprints, gathering DNA samples, or uncovering links to other unsolved, high-profile kidnappings in Oyo State.

​The opposition candidate also raised a critical question that has further fueled the cover-up narrative: Who actually owns the property? He slammed the government for completely erasing the physical site before revealing the identity of the landlord or caretakers to the public. Failing to name or properly investigate the owners before destroying the building looks less like a penalty against crime, Fatola warned, and much more like a calculated move to protect powerful and highly influential individuals connected to the property.

​While the state government insists the rapid demolition serves as a harsh deterrent to property owners who lease spaces to criminals, the PDP candidate maintained that erasing a fresh crime scene before a proper trial can even begin feels like a desperate attempt to silence the site. He called on citizens to demand total transparency, stating that a government genuinely committed to fighting crime would prioritize exposing the entire criminal network over an aggressive bulldozer rush that looks entirely like a cover-up.