Nigeria, March 22 -- The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun State has called on president Bola Ahmed Tinubu to declare a state of emergency in the state.

A statement signed by the Party's Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi, attributed the reason for the call to a total collapse of governance at the grassroots level.

The party claimed that Governor Ademola Adeleke-led administration has rendered local governments non-functional.

The party, which compared Adeleke's governance to that of Rivers State's suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara said, "There is no infraction that Fubara was accused of that Adeleke is not guilty of."

The party also claimed that governance in Osun State is being run by proxy, with the governor's...