- PDP officials approached court in Ikirun to resolve disputes regarding secretariat occupation by Oyetola-era local government officials.
- Osun NULGE filed lawsuit in Ilesa against APC chairmen and councillors over alleged illegal secretariat occupation.
The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused Governor Ademola Adeleke of misusing the judicial system for his own advantage.
In a statement released on Thursday, the party’s Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi, alleged that Governor Adeleke disregarded the Court of Appeal’s ruling, which reinstated the duly elected APC local government council chairmen and councillors on February 10, 2025.
The party further disclosed that it was aware of Governor Adeleke’s involvement in the legal actions filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, local government officials who were elected during the February 22, local government elections.
Additionally, the Osun APC condemned the National Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, Osun State chapter, for engaging in what appeared to be a politically motivated dispute, which they found both morally and legally inappropriate.
It criticised the union for allegedly aligning itself with council chairmen and councillors who, based on the Court of Appeal’s judgement of February 10, 2025, were unlawfully elected and lacked legal recognition.
Recall that the PDP-elected local government officials had on Wednesday sought intervention from an Osun State High Court sitting in Ikirun regarding the ongoing crisis caused by the occupation of council secretariats by local government officials from Governor Adegboyega Oyetola’s 2022 administration.
Furthermore, reports indicate that the Osun State chapter of NULGE has filed a lawsuit in the Osun State High Court sitting in Ilesa, contesting the alleged unlawful occupation of local government secretariats by APC local government chairmen and councillors elected during Oyetola’s tenure.
It was gathered that Osun NULGE’s decision was aimed at preserving law and order while ensuring that their members remained protected from any potential threats that might arise during the performance of their official duties.
The Osun APC’s statement reads, “If Governor Adeleke and his cohorts think that they can thwart the judgement of a superior court by a lower court through the back door, they will still remain perpetual jokers of the century.”
“The latest unpopular judicial journey of Governor Adeleke and his cohorts is an indication that they have lost the chance of exhibiting to the whole world that they have what it takes to govern the state effectively.”
“One does not need to be a legal mind to know that if truly Governor Adeleke has a substantive cause of action, the suitable arena for him to go would have been the Supreme Court for redress over the landmark Court of Appeal judgement that reinstated the APC local government council chairmen and councillors.”
“The fact is that he is shopping for a compromising judicial officer, that has been the reason why the case that had been adjudicated over by the Court of Appeal is being reintroduced to the lower court through the back door, which is a classic example of an abuse of court process.”
“Those who are thinking for Governor Adeleke are quite aware that the litigations are dead on arrival but are merely designed to keep the Peoples Democratic Party PDP members together and waste the precious time of the court and subsequently constituting a clog in the wheel of progress of the smooth running of the local government administration by the reinstated APC council chairmen and councillors.”
“What evidence do we need again to state and conclude that the litigation by the NULGE was the handiwork of the Adeleke-led administration as it was his state commissioner for information, Kolapo Alimi, that rolled out the aspect of the story concerning the NULGE today?”
“We want to state unequivocally that we are unperturbed with the development as there are men and women of honour and integrity in the state judiciary who could not be infected by the glaring misnomer which has become the hallmark of Governor Adeleke’s administration.”
“The reinstated local government chairmen and councillors have come to stay and the earlier Governor Adeleke learns how to co-govern with them, the better it would be for him as they were elected the same way the governor was elected.”
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