The Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has criticised the state government’s security architecture, describing a fresh bandit attack on a state security base as proof of operational vulnerabilities across the state.
The political opposition issued the statement on Monday, September 14, 2026, following an early-morning assault on a tactical outpost belonging to Operation Burst—a joint security task force comprising personnel from the Nigerian Army and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).
Details of the Igbeti-Igboho road attack
The attack occurred between 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. on Sunday, September 13, along the Igbeti–Igboho road in the Olorunsogo Local Government Area.
According to local council officials and security reports, armed assailants invaded the base located along the forest reserve corridor. The attackers opened fire on the station, set fire to a building structure and a service vehicle, and looted items including a power generator and a motorcycle before escaping into the surrounding terrain.
No human casualties were reported during the incident, as security teams mobilised to the scene shortly after receiving distress calls.
APC questions surveillance aircraft efficiency
Reacting through a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Wasiu Sadare, the Oyo APC asserted that the brazen invasion of a military-backed security outpost underscores serious gaps in state-level crisis readiness.
The opposition party singled out Governor Seyi Makinde’s procurement of surveillance aircraft, questioning why aerial assets were not deployed to track or neutralise the fleeing insurgents.
“Since the day Governor Makinde celebrated the purported delivery of two aircraft, nothing has been heard or felt about their deployment to survey the airspace in the state,” Sadare stated. “Sadly, the same Igbeti area came under attack for more than an hour, and there was no surveillance to track the attackers and repel them”.
The party urged the state government to re-evaluate its tactical security operations, particularly across vulnerable agrarian communities in Oke-Ogun, to prevent further incursions into rural local councils.
State security authorities have since intensified joint patrols in the affected forest reserves to track down the perpetrators.
