The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun State has accused Governor Ademola Adeleke of engaging in an abuse of court process.
The party in a statement on Thursday by its Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi accused Governor Adeleke of treating with disdain the judgement of the appellate court which reinstated the elected APC local government council chairmen and councillors on February 10, 2025.
The party revealed that it was aware that Governor Adeleke was behind the court suits instituted by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, local government officials elected during the February 22, local government elections.
The Osun APC also stated that it was morally and legally offensive that the National Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, Osun State chapter, could get entangled in an ostensibly partisan political matter.
It accused the union of swaying to the whims and caprices of the allegedly illegally elected council chairmen and councillors who were not known to the law of the land by virtue of the Court of Appeal judgement of February 10, 2025.
Alexa News Nigeria recalls that the PDP elected local council officials had on Wednesday approached an Osun State High Court sitting in Ikirun on the resolution of the ongoing logjam created by the occupation of the various council secretariats by the local government officials produced by the administration of Governor Adegboyega Oyetola in 2022.
Also, it was gathered that the Osun State chapter of National Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, has equally instituted a lawsuit in the Osun State High Court sitting in Ilesa over the forceful invasion and illegal occupation of the local government secretariats by the APC local government chairmen and councillors of elected during the Oyetola led administration in Osun State.
The decision by Osun NULGE it was gathered is in pursuant to the importance of maintaining law and order aimed at particularly insulating their members from harm, which could brew up at any time while performing their official duties as local government employees,
The Osun APC statement reads, “If Governor Adeleke and his cohorts think that they can thwart the judgement of a superior court by a lower court through the back door, they will still remain perpetual jokers of the century.
“The latest unpopular judicial journey of Governor Adeleke and his cohorts is an indication that they have lost the chance of exhibiting to the whole world that they have what it takes to govern the state effectively.
“One does not need to be a legal mind to know that if truly Governor Adeleke has a substantive cause of action, the suitable arena for him to go would have been the Supreme Court for redress over the landmark Court of Appeal judgement that reinstated the APC local government council chairmen and councillors.
“The fact is that he is shopping for a compromising judicial officer, that has been the reason why the case that had been adjudicated over by the Court of Appeal is being reintroduced to the lower court through the back door, which is a classic example of an abuse of court process.
“Those who are thinking for Governor Adeleke are quite aware that the litigations are dead on arrival but are merely designed to keep the Peoples Democratic Party PDP members together and waste the precious time of the court and subsequently constituting a clog in the wheel of progress of the smooth running of the local government administration by the reinstated APC council chairmen and councillors.
“What evidence do we need again to state and conclude that the litigation by the NULGE was the handiwork of the Adeleke-led administration as it was his state commissioner for information, Kolapo Alimi, that rolled out the aspect of the story concerning the NULGE today?
“We want to state unequivocally that we are unperturbed with the development as there are men and women of honour and integrity in the state judiciary who could not be infected by the glaring misnomer which has become the hallmark of Governor Adeleke’s administration.
“The reinstated local government chairmen and councillors have come to stay and the earlier Governor Adeleke learns how to co-govern with them, the better it would be for him as they were elected the same way the governor was elected.”
