The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has accused Governor Ademola Adeleke’s government of fresh plot to procure a judgement from the State High Court, Ikirun to dislodge reinstated chairmen and councillors elected in 2022 under the APC platform.
For the opposition party, the state government intends to “launch another round of a massive attack on the local government chairmen and councillors elected on its platform who are currently in charge of the council secretariats and subject the state to another round of anarchy.”
Recall that no fewer than seven lives were lost in the state as the chairmen elected this year on the platform of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party clashed with the APC.
Addressing a press conference in Osogbo on Sunday, the APC, through a former state Commissioner for Information, Hon. Sunday Akere, revealed that “the state government has concluded an arrangement to procure the ‘kangaroo judgment’ from the court to be presided over by one Justice I. O. Adeleke of Ikirun on the 17th of April, 2025, with a view to perverting the cause of justice and bringing the sponsored Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) selected chairmen and hoodlums to the councils through the backdoor.”
The party noted that 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 bring the illegally-selected chairmen of the PDP to the council with the aid of Amotekun Corps and thugs by all means without reflecting on the consequences of his action to security of lives and property.’
The APC reaffirmed its commitment to resist any illegal means capable of causing political unrest and undermining the security and sanctity of the judiciary in the state saying: “Adeleke’s executive recklessness, security compromise, abuse of power and judicial integrity will be resisted without apology.”
APC called on the Inspector General of Police, Director-General, Department of State Services and Office of the National Security Adviser to immediately wade into the matter and prevent what it termed “looming crisis in the state.”
The party accused Adeleke’s government of “grounding 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 which has invariably denied 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, Modakeke in the last two months.”
“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 violently attack and 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 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.”
