Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has mentioned he’ll pursue the decision of the Osun native authorities query to a logical conclusion via authorized means.
In a press release issued by his spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed on Monday, Governor Adeleke hailed the Attraction Courtroom ruling as lastly reaffirming the reality in regards to the legality of the validly elected and sworn in PDP chairmen and councillors.
DAILY POST recalled that the Peoples Democratic Social gathering, PDP, managed Osun State authorities and the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, had disagreed over two judgments by the Attraction Courtroom, Akure Division, on February 10 and June 13, 2025.
Whereas the Osun APC insisted that the February 10 judgment reinstated native authorities chairmen elected on the platform of the social gathering, who have been sacked by a Federal Excessive Courtroom sitting in Osogbo after the October 22, 2022 native authorities election within the state, the PDP maintained that the judgment by no means reinstated the sacked APC officers.
Based mostly on the energy of the Attraction Courtroom ruling, the state governor performed one other native authorities election in February 22, 2025 the place PDP candidates gained all positions.
Within the assertion launched by his spokesman on Monday, the governor counseled the persistence and dedication to due course of by Osun individuals, noting that the most recent judgement has put paid to any lie about reinstatement of beforehand sacked chairmen and affirmed the legitimacy of the PDP chairmen and councillors.
He mentioned, “Not like the opposition, we’re individuals of due course of. The most recent judgement is being served on all related stakeholders at state and nationwide stage. Our expectation is a fast restoration of normalcy consistent with the regulation.
“I respect the deep love for peace and unity as demonstrated by the PDP Chairmen and councillors of the 30 native authorities and space councils since their swearing in. Your persistence and assist for the regulation has paid off.”
The governor additional thanked safety businesses for his or her dedication to regulation in addition to peace and tranquility of Osun State at the same time as he urged residents and residents to proceed to peacefully conduct themselves.
“Evil plots towards our expensive state on all fronts have been foiled. We should proceed to stay peaceable and by no means enable brokers of violence and enemies of the individuals to pull the state into violence and backwardness,” Adeleke was quoted as saying.
In the meantime, the Osun APC in a press release signed by Adegoke Ogunsola, its Authorized Adviser, warned the Osun PDP to cease inciting the general public because the appellate courtroom judgment of June 13 didn’t validate the judgment of February 10.
Osun APC so maintained that it’s only the Supreme Courtroom that may pronounce on the judgment.
Whereas calling on Governor Adeleke to curtail his alleged desperation, Osun APC acknowledged that the PDP has resorted to all method of determined antics to trigger confusion within the interpretation of the 2 Attraction Courtroom judgments.
Adegoke within the assertion mentioned “The most recent acts of mischief unleashed by the Governor and his social gathering males have been attributable to the most recent choice of the Courtroom of Attraction of thirteenth June, 2025 refusing to relist the enchantment of the Allied Folks’s Motion (APM) and the All Progressives Congress (APC). The most important motive for the refusal to relist the enchantment is that the identical Courtroom of Attraction had determined the identical points raised by the Attraction in Attraction No. CA/AK/270/2022 in its judgment of tenth February, 2025 which reinstated the Chairmen and Councilors elected beneath the platform of APC through the October fifteenth 2022 native authorities elections.
“It have to be recalled that by the choice of the Courtroom of Attraction delivered on tenth February, 2025, the Courtroom expressly allowed the enchantment of APC towards the judgment of the Federal Excessive Courtroom which nullified the election of the Chairmen and Councilors elected on the platform of APC. The Courtroom of Attraction discovered the enchantment lodged by APC to be meritorious and expressly allowed identical and awarded prices in favour of the APC and towards the PDP.
“By the above and opposite to the misinterpretation that the federal government of Mr. Jackson Ademola Adeleke has been making an attempt to foist on Nigerians normally and the safety businesses particularly, it’s crucial to set out the prayers contained within the Amended Discover of Attraction and Temporary of Argument of the APC which have been discovered to be meritorious and allowed by the Courtroom of Attraction thusly.”
Whereas accusing Adeleke and the Osun PDP of mischievously deceptive the general public, Osun APC urged the Legal professional Common of Federation and Minister of Justice, the Inspector Common of Police and heads of different safety businesses within the nation to name him to order and to refuse for use to hijack reliable native authorities administrations from the democratically elected Chairmen and Councilors within the state.
“Any try by the federal government of Governor Adeleke and its PDP desperadoes to unleash mayhem as they did on seventeenth February, 2025 which led to the unlucky assassination of Honourable Remi Abass and 6 different leaders and members of APC, shall be vehemently resisted legally and should result in breakdown of regulation and order,” the social gathering warned.
