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THE Osun State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC has accused the Senator Ademola Adeleke-led administration of engaging in “executive rascality” and manipulating the judiciary to undermine the local government administration.
The opposition Party accused the government of planning to procure judgement from the State High Court in order to remove the current occupants of local government Secretariats out of office.
The Former State Commissioner for Information, Hon. Sunday Akere, who spoke on behalf of the Party said at a press conference held on Sunday, in Osogbo, called on the security agents to be on red alert to prevent crisis in the State.
He said “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, he explained.
“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”, he added.
The APC also alleged that the state government has been sponsoring attacks on its members, resulting in the deaths of seven individuals, including Hon. Remi Abbas, the then Chairman of Irewole Local Government Council Area.
However, the Osun State Government has responded to the allegations, stating that the APC is afraid of imminent backlash over its illegal occupation of local government secretariats and has embarked on an open blackmail of the judiciary.
Through the statement signed by the Governor’s spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, The government stated that the APC is facing three lawsuits over its invasion of the local government secretariats, filed by the duly elected local government chairmen and councillors of the PDP under the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), the state local government workers under the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), and the All Peoples Party (APP).
While describing the APC’s alarm of plots to deploy violence against the court-sacked Yes/No chairmen as mere fantasy and a failed attempt to escape the legal consequences of their unconstitutional and reprehensible occupation of local government secretariats across Osun State.
Rasheed said, “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.
“It would be recalled that direct stakeholders in the current face off took legal actions to eject usurpers and anti-democratic elements from local government secretariats across the state.”
He also called on the APC to face its legal battle and leave the state governor out of its self-imposed and self-inflicted moral, legal, and political injuries.