The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the state Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sunday Bisi, and the state Commissioner of Information, Kolapo Alimi, of allegedly plotting a violent takeover of local government councils.

This was contained in a petition addressed to the State Director of the Department of State Services (DSS) and the State Commissioner of Police.

Also listed in the petition are the Chairman of the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSSIEC), Hashim Abioye, and the spokesperson for Governor Ademola Adeleke, Mr Olawale Rasheed.

The petition followed tensions arising from the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Akure, which dismissed the APC’s motion to relist an appeal that had been struck out on January 13 for lack of diligent prosecution.

The appeal followed a suit instituted by the All Peoples Party (APP) against OSSIEC at the Federal High Court, challenging the legality of a local government poll conducted on October 15, 2022, by the immediate past administration of ex-Governor Gboyega Oyetola, which resulted in the election of all APC candidates.

Both APC and the Osun State government disagreed over the implications of the judgment regarding the control of local governments, which are currently under the control of APC council bosses reinstated by the February 10 ruling of the same Court of Appeal in Akure.

The copy of the petition, dated June 16, 2025, forwarded to journalists in Osogbo, was signed by Adeleke Ogunsola, the state legal adviser of the APC.
In the petition, Ogunsola alleged that the state PDP chairman, the commissioner for information, the OSSIEC chairman, and the spokesperson for Adeleke were plotting to recruit thugs who would be deployed to attack top local government functionaries elected in the February 15, 2022, local government poll.

It reads, “We wish to draw the attention of security agencies, including the Nigeria Police Force, Osun State Command, men and officers of Department of State Security e.t.c., and your good office to the incitement of violence and plans that are being hatched by some functionaries serving with the Osun State government.

“The information at the disposal of the State Executive Council of APC state chapter is that plans are being perfected by the afore-mentioned individuals on behalf of Osun State government, under the leadership of Senator Ademola Nurudeen Jakson Adeleke, the Executive Governor of Osun State, to recruit armed thugs with the sole aim of attacking the political functionaries in the local government councils and area offices in Osun State, who were elected on the 15th of October 2022 on the platform of All Progressives Congress, but later illegally removed by the Osun State governor through an Executive Order pursuant to the judgment of the Federal High Court, Osogbo, delivered on 25th of November 2025.

“But the judgment which was later set aside on appeal to the Court of Appeal through the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Akure, delivered on 10th February 2025 and also confirmed by the Court of Appeal judgment of the Court of Appeal, Akure, delivered on 13th June 2025.”

Ogunsola recalled that on February 17, 2025, elected officials at the local government councils and those reinstated by the Court of Appeal in Akure were allegedly attacked by some individuals suspected to be sponsored by the PDP Osun State chapter.

He alleged that during the attack, one of the reinstated chairmen, Late Remi Abass, former Chairman Irewole Local Government, was allegedly murdered by the said armed thugs suspected to have been sponsored by the Osun State Government and the PDP.

“We therefore call on you to use your good offices to deploy all security tactics and strategies to ensure the safety of the political functionaries and their property in all local government councils and Area Offices and members of All Progressives Congress in Osun State and to forestall breach of public peace and break down of law and order.

“Also, we call on your office to launch a serious investigation into the various incitement and acts capable of breach of peace complained of in this letter, especially as it concerns Messrs Kolapo Alimi, Hassim Abioye, Sunday Bisi and Mallam Olawale Rasheed.,” the statement said.