…it’s a false alarm, blackmail – Adeleke
The Osun State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the Governor Ademola Adeleke-led Government in the State of perpetrating what it described as “executive rascality” and undermining the Rule of Law in the State’s Local Government Administration.
Addressing a Press Conference at the Ileri-Oluwa Campaign Office in Osogbo, Sunday Akere, former Commissioner for Information, alleged that the People’s Democratic Party-led State Government plotted to procure a “kangaroo” judgment from an Osun State High Court in Ikirun on April 17, 2025 to be delivered by Justice I.O. Adeleke meant to frustrate the implementation of Appeal Court’s judgement which reinstated all the sacked Local Governments’ Chairmen and Councillors.
Akere stated that the Adeleke’s Administration had taken deliberate steps to frustrate the implementation of the February 10, 2025, Court of Appeal judgment, which reinstated the APC Chairmen and Councillors across the 30 Local Government Areas and the Area Office in Modakeke.
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He noted that the party had reliably gathered that “it is a 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 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”.
Akere further 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 had 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.
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He called on Osun State Judiciary to be wary of the PDP desperation not to drag the Judiciary into the mud through procurement of black market judgment and injunctions from the State High Courts capable of rocking the peace of the State.
In a swift response to the allegations, the PDP-led Osun State Government has described as “false alarm and blackmail” the allegations raised by the APC over alleged plans to unleash violence and judicial manipulation in the ongoing Local Government Administration crisis.
Reacting to the allegations of APC, Olawale Rasheed, Governor’s Spokesperson, stated that contrary to the APC’s claim, the State Government had not filed any legal action regarding the Local Government dispute, but instead urged all parties to pursue lawful means of redress.
