Concerns as Adeleke swears in newly elected council chairmen, councillors

• Orders them to stay away from LG secretariats
• Osun APC asks reinstated LG bosses to resume today, tasks agencies on security

Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has sworn in the newly elected council chairmen and councillors across the state. Special Adviser to the Governor on SDG and Multilateral Relations, Banks Omishore, who disclosed this, yesterday, said that Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, and his Bauchi counterpart, Bala Mohammed, were in the state in solidarity with Adeleke.

“Swearing in of the local council chairmen and their councillors is now ongoing. Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State are here on a solidarity visit to the governor,” he said on his X account.

This comes after the State Independent Electoral Commission (OSSIEC) announced the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) winner of all chairmanship and councillorship positions in Saturday’s council election.

However, the governor has directed them to stay away from council secretariats to avoid a breakdown of law and order in the state. Adeleke also charged the officials to work within the manifesto of the PDP, noting that his administration is transforming the state for the better.

The governor issued the directives while administering the oath of allegiance and oath of office to the chairmen and vice chairmen at the Osun State Government House. He said the occasion is the culmination of what the people of the state have laboured to achieve.

Earlier, the Chairman of the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSSIEC), Hashim Abioye, presented Certificates of Return to the elected chairmen.

Abioye congratulated the elected chairmen on their victory, just as he urged them to be good ambassadors of democracy both in conduct and service to the people.

MEANWHILE, the Osun State chapter of the APC has directed chairmen and councillors elected on the platform of the party purportedly reinstated by the Court of Appeal judgment of February 10, 2025, to resume duties in the council secretariats today, February 24, 2025.

It also urged them to disregard as fake news the social media report that directed them not to resume at their respective offices in 30 local council secretariats in the state, describing the development as the handiwork of anti-democratic elements.

This directive was contained in a statement, yesterday, by the APC’s Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi. However, the APC has implored the state’s Commissioner of Police (CP), the Director of the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Comptroller of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to be on watchout to keep peace in all the councils in the state.

The party also appealed to “parents and guardians in the state to warn their children and wards to desist from being recruited as political thugs by disgruntled and failed politicians who are hell-bent on disturbing the peace of the state.”