Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has denied allegations by the All Progressive Congress (APC) that he plans to procure a High Court judgement to dislodge the reinstated chairmen in the state and cause chaos.
According to the governor, “the opposition party is afraid of imminent backlash over its illegal occupation of local government secretariats and has embarked on an open blackmail of the judiciary.”
Reacting to allegations by the APC on Sunday that Adeleke is plotting to obtain a controversial court judgement, a statement issued by the governor’s spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, explained that the governor has never filed any suit over the crisis rocking the local government areas.
“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.
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“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.
“The validly elected council chairmen, vice Chairmen, and councillors filed very potent lawsuits to flush out Yes/No council chairmen who are on a campaign of self-help rather than rule of law.
“The workers union at the local government level, NULGE, as an interested stakeholder has also resorted to the judicial system. The specific reliefs were sought from the courts by both NULGE and the legally elected council chiefs.
“We call on the state APC to face its legal battle and leave the state governor out of its self-imposed and self-inflicted moral, legal, and political injuries.”
