APC kicks as High Court asks Osun to proceed with LG polls

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressive Congress has berated the State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party over an enrolled order granted by an Ilesa High Court asking the State Independent Electoral Commission to proceed with the planned local government poll on Saturday.

The High Court presided over by Justice A. Aderibigbe also directed security agencies to offer protection during the election.

Reacting in a release by the Chairman of APC in Osun State, Tajudeen Lawal described the court order as “fake and inglorious”, adding that it “a joke taken too far.”

He contended that Nigeria statutes do not prescribe that a lower court should override an Appeal court judgement.

Lawal expressed shock that a court could make its courtroom for the purposes of “absurdity and social retrogression all because of being influenced by the executive who lacks respect for the rule of law.”

“APC in Osun has therefore called for firmness with which the security agents have been enforcing the February 10, 2025, Court of Appeal judgement that reinstated the cruelly sacked local government political functionaries by Governor Adeleke in 2022,” he said.

The APC chairman wondered how a jurist who is aware of the superior court unanimous judgement delivered by his senior brothers in a case, “allowed an abuse of court process.”

Lawal noted that there is no vacancy in the council offices, urging security agencies to implement the Court of Appeal judgement that reinstated the APC chairmen and councilors.