Osun APC Accuses Gov. Adeleke of Ignoring Court Judgement, Planning Unrest in the State.
In a press conference held in Osogbo on Sunday, the Osun APC has accused Governor Adeleke of Recklessness and Rascalility in implementation the February 10 2025 court of appeal judgment reinstating the sacked APC Local Government Chairmen and Councillors.
Statement of the press briefing reads;
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Gentlemen of the press, you are welcome again to this epoch-making press conference addressed on some governmental anomalies in our dear state, Osun.
The last two months in the state have been characterized by executive recklessness, security compromise and abuse of the judiciary by Senator Ademola Adeleke-led administration to undermine the local government administration as a result of the Court of Appeal judgement that reinstated the All Progressives Congress (APC) Local Government Chairmen and Councilors on February 10, 2025.
This executive rascality began on Sunday, 16th February, 2025 with the address of the governor instigating violence and declared that he could not guarantee the safety of the reinstated APC local government chairmen to prevent them from assuming their constitutional responsibilities at their various councils.
The state address of the governor would be recalled strengthened the non-state actors sponsored by the state government to attack and killed seven members of our party including Hon Remi Abbas, the then Chairman, Irewole Local Government Council Area of the state before the police were deployed to douse the tension.
Instead of threading the part of the rule of the law and compliance to the judicial authority by obeying the judgment of the Court of Appeal or at most approach the Supreme Court, the state government has decided to ground the local government activities by financially inducing the leadership of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) to illegally withdraw the services of the state local government workers at the local government secretariats in the state, thereby denying the people of the state essential services being provided by the local government councils in all the 30 local government council areas and the Area Office in Modakeke since over two months ago.
The Governor Adeleke-led government has equally been sponsoring massive primary health care facilities damage by removing inscribed commissioning marbles in some community health centres renovated by the last administration under the leadership of Governor Adegboyega Oyetola and replacing them with inscriptions of Senator Ademola Adeleke. This ugly incident has been accordingly reported to the security agents for necessary actions.
Gentlemen of the press, the desperation of Senator Ademola Adeleke PDP-led government to subvert the will of the people at the local government level is taking a very dangerous dimension which calls for an urgent intervention of the security agencies. We have a privileged information that the state government is planning another round of a massive attack on our local government chairmen currently at the council secretariats.
It was reliably gathered that the state government has concluded an arrangement to procure a judgement through a state High Court sitting in Ikirun in Ifelodun Local Government Council Area of the state to be presided over by one Justice I. O. Adeleke on the 17th of April, 2025.
It was reliably gathered that it was a purchased order of mandamus which Governor Adeleke is banking on from the pliable High Court judge in Ikirun for the illegally-selected chairmen.
The planned order of mandamus filed against Governor Adeleke for the High Court to prevent the governor from locking them out that would then form the basis through which the illegal local government chairmen and their councillors to be aided by Amotekun Corps and daredevil thugs would invade all the local government council areas in the state which would resort to break down of law and order.
It is on that 17th day of April, 2025 procured kangaroo ruling that the council workers who have abandoned their jobs for over two months intend to go back to work.
The procured judgement is, among others, to violently chase away the reinstated local government chairmen out of the local government council areas against the judgment of the Appeal Court by contemporaneously enlisting the services of Amotekun Corps to chase away our elected chairmen from the local government secretariats across the state.
The procured judgement from the pliable High Court judge in Ikirun will also direct the Chairmen and Councilors who participated in the illegal local government election purportedly conducted by the partisan Abioye Hasim-led Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSSIEC) on February 22, 2025 in the state to resume work with the primary intention of unleashing terror on our local government chairmen and councillors who have resumed duty in their various local government council areas.
The Amotekun Corps which have been strangely and clandestinely granted prosecutorial power by the state law through the Attorney-General of the State has been positioned to spearhead the attack after the judgement.
A similar case is also before a state High Court sitting in Ilesa before one Justice Yinka Aderibigbe designed for similar motive to create pandemonium in the state. It is on record that the pliable High Court judge in Ilesa had earlier given a controversial judgement allegedly written in the comfort of his living room contrary to known court culture in favour of the illegally-selected PDP council candidates.
Information also has it that there are plans to massively mobilise thugs within and outside the state to be armed and cloth in Amotekun Corps uniform in order to carry out orchestrated attacks on our chairmen and burn down local government secretariats and deceitfully hang the crimes on the neck of the Court of Appeal reinstated local government chairmen and councillors in the state.
It would be recalled that it was the same manner that the PDP obtained a fraudulent judgment to illegally conduct purpoted elections to the local government offices that were not vacant on February 22, 2025 from Ilesa High Court. The state government and the PDP instead of approaching the Supreme Court to appeal the 10th February, 2025 Court of Appeal judgement for further appeal at the Supreme Court have strangely resorted to forum shopping from various high courts.
Based on the foregoing, we therefore, call on Osun State judiciary to be wary of the PDP desperation not to drag the judiciary into to the mud through procurement of black market judgment and injunctions from our state high courts capable of rocking the peace of the state.
It is a clear principle in elementary law that a lower court can not assume jurisdiction on a matter already settled by the higher court especially the Appellate Court in this circumstance.
This attempt is an effort to create constitutional crisis and subsequently throw the state into avoidable crisis.
If the PDP and the Adeleke-led administration considered the Appeal Court judgment unacceptable, they are free to approach the Supreme Court as the last resort instead of laying a foundation for creating crisis in the state.
The joker the Governor Adeleke-led government is banking on is to engage in a judicial coup by procuring mandamus order for the illegal local government council chairmen and councillors from the pliable High Court judge in Ikirun on the 17th day of April, 2025.
The illegal local council chairmen and councillors who have been staying off the council would seek the mandamus order from the High Court against Governor Adeleke who subsequently would not object but rather prevail on the already stationed Amotekun Corps with daredevil thugs to invade the council secretariats across the state with maximum force.
In the arrangement made by Governor Adeleke and his co-travellers, it is the illegally elected council chairmen and councillors whom the council workers who have been staying off the council secretariats would accompany to the various councils which would lead to pandemonium and chaos across the state.
The previous similar judgement has forced our party to petition the National Judicial Council (NJC) on the judicial rascality being encouraged by the Governor Adeleke-led administration and we shall not hesitate to lodge another complaint whenever we notice any form of judicial abuse and compromise over the local government administration in Osun State as it is axiomatic that the judiciary is the last hope of a common man and if it is allowed to be consistently abused as it is being currently encouraged by the Osun State government under Governor Adeleke, then our democracy is in a serious danger.
We are also calling on the Inspector-General of Police, the Director-General of the Department of State Services(DSS) and the Office of the National Security Adviser(NSA )to take note of this clandestine move and rescue the state from the hand of blood suckers who derive joy in the maimings and killings of innocent souls in order to frustrate the rule of law in a democratic government which is an aberration that could neither sit nor stand.
I thank you all for listening.
