LG Crisis: Osun APP Files Contempt Of Court Proceeding Against APC, Yes or No Chairmen

The Osun State chapter of the Action Peoples Party (APP) has filed a contempt proceeding against the All Progressives Congress, the Osun State APC chairman, Tajudeen Lawal and the reinstated Yes or No chairmen elected under the party.

APP, in the case file before a Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo on Tuesday, said the defendants disobeyed the order of the court, which reportedly sacked the Yes or No chairmen from office.

OSUN DEFENDER reports that the Peoples Democratic Party and the APP filed a separate case before the Federal High Court, Osogbo, challenging the conduct of local government elections by the immediate past administration under former governor Gboyega Oyetola.

The court, in the two cases, sacked the APC chairmen who were elected after Oyetola lost his re-election bid.

However, the APC and the chairmen appealed the judgment, but while pursuing that of the PDP, the APC left that of the APP unattended, and the case was struck out on January 13, 2025.

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Meanwhile, the Court of Appeal sitting in Akure, granted the prayers of the APC in the appeal against the PDP case and reportedly reinstated the sacked chairmen.

The APC chairmen have since resumed at the local government secretariats.

In the contempt case filed, the APP said unless the defendants obeyed the judgement of the Federal High Court which directed that the election into the Local Government Councils across Osun State held on 15/10/2022 pursuant to Notice of Election issued on 15/8/2022 is unconstitutional, invalid, null and void and that all
persons or Individuals occupying offices in the State Local Government Councils by virtue of the said election are accordingly sacked, the defender shall be guilty of contempt of Court and shall be liable to be committed to prison.

The APP said it has informed the court that the Yes or No chairmen are yet to comply with the Federal High Court order and are forcefully occupying offices in the 30 Local Government Councils in the State.

The APP asked the chairmen to comply with the court order forthwith by vacating the offices or be guilty of contempt of court.