The Imole Campaign Council has proposed state honours and recognition for victims of electoral violence and killings across Osun State.

TICC said on Thursday that in the last few months, many members of the Accord Party and grassroots supporters of Governor Ademola Adeleke have been gruesomely murdered, shot, brutalised, criminally abducted and unjustly detained simply because of their electoral choice.

On May 8, 2026, Kolade Eluyera was killed in Ikire; Ezekiel Olapade was murdered in Ilobu on June 21, 2026; Ajayi Rogba’s life was wickedly terminated on June 23, 2026, in Ẹsa-Òkè while Timilehin Oni's precocious life was rudely cut short last month by thugs and gangsters loyal to the opposition.

Also, Asimiyu Ajibola, Samuel Saliu, Taofeek Saka, Lawal Habeeb, Adeyemi Toheeb, Monday Fidelis, Ramoni Kamolideen, Kamar Aola, and John Matthew, among others, were fatally shot and injured because of their unalloyed commitment to Governor Ademola Adeleke’s re-election.

The council said, "Unfortunately, the last few weeks have also witnessed the persecution and arbitrary detention of over 100 other focal campaigners of Governor Adeleke by the police, in a desperate attempt to cripple grassroots mobilisation for the governor’s re-election on August 15, 2026.

"The Imole Campaign Council strongly condemns the assassination, persecution and intimidation of Accord Party members in Osun and calls on the police to embrace neutrality and professionalism as against their current disposition of being used by the All Progressives Congress to hound opponents.

"Although no recognition or compensation can measure up to the level of sacrifice of the victims of APC-sponsored attacks, the Imole Campaign Council finds it imperative and deserving that persons who have paid different kinds of sacrifices, even the supreme price, against oppression and repression, whilst demonstrating their support for the governor’s re-election, be accorded state honours. Their sacrifices are not in vain. Further details on this will be communicated in due time."

ASA