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The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused Governor Ademola Adeleke of planning to procure a judgement from the State High Court, Ikirun, which will pave way for the elected local government chairmen under the Peoples Democratic Party to have access to the local government secretariats.
The APC while addressing the media on Sunday in Osogbo, said it has reliably gathered that it is the purchased order of mandamus from the pliable High Court judge in Ikirun which Governor Adeleke is banking on to enable the PDP chairmen enter the council.
A former Commissioner for Information in the state, Sunday Akere, said the judgement will be issued by one Justice I. O. Adeleke on 17th April, 2025, with a view to perverting the cause of justice and bringing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chairmen and hoodlums to the councils through the backdoor.
The party sought the intervention of the Inspector General of Police, Director-General, Department of State Services -DSS and Office of the National Security Adviser over the situation, noting that It may cause another round of crisis in the state.
“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 violently attack and chase away our elected chairmen from the local government secretariats across the state.
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“The procured judgement from the pliable High Court judge in Ikirun will also direct the Chairmen and Councillors 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 APC stated.
But Adeleke in a swift reaction, lampooned the APC, noting that the party is afraid of imminent backlash over the illegal occupation of local government secretariats by the reinstated chairmen.
The spokesperson to the governor, Olawale Rasheed, in a statement, said Adeleke did not institute any case and has no intention of doing so.
The statement noted that the APC is raising false alarms as a mere attempt to escape the legal consequences of their unconstitutional and reprehensible takeover of the local government secretariats.
The statement further read, “Additionally, the state APC is lying about an open secret that it faces three lawsuits over its invasion of the local government secretariats namely; the first by the duly elected local government chairmen and councillors of PDP under ALGON, the second by the state local government workers under NULGE and the third by the All Peoples Party (APP) which sued the APC for contempt of Court for ignoring a subsisting court judgement that sacked its Yes/No chairmen.
“In all these cases, Governor Ademola Adeleke did not and has no intention of instituting any court action after his directive to PDP elected chairmen and councilors to abide by the rule of law and avoid violence.
“The APC alarm of plots to deploy violence against the illegal court-sacked Yes/No chairmen is mere fantasy and failed attempt to escape the legal consequences of their unconstitutional and reprehensible occupation of local governments secretariats across Osun state.”
Olamilekan Adigun is a graduate of Mass Communication with years of experience in journalism embedded in uncovering human interest stories. He also prioritises accuracy and factual reportage of issues.
