- Safiu Kehinde
• Raises Alarm Over Plot to Cause Mayhem Over Sacked Council Chairmen
The Governor of Osun Ademola Adeleke, has raised the alarm over an alleged plot to cause mayhem in his state.
He said the opposition wants to do this by enforcing what he called a non-existent court judgment over the local government areas in the state.
Adeleke had raised the alarm over an alleged plot to cause mayhem in his state.
In a series of tweet on his verified X handle Sunday afternoon, Adeleke alleged that the opposition wants to do this by enforcing what he called a non-existent court judgment over the local government areas in the state.
Adeleke said the bone of contention is the “brazen effrontery to return to office council chairmen sacked by a subsisting court Judgment using a different court decision.”
Adeleke said this has no consequential order.
He went further, “Let me make it clear that the said Council Chairmen were sacked before I was sworn in as governor of Osun State, contrary to the lies being peddled, that the Chairmen and councilors were sacked by my Executive Order.”
The Governor said he had nothing to do with the sacking of the chairmen and councilors produced by the Osun 2022 local government polls.
“The Chairmen and Councilors were sacked by two different judgments of the Federal High Court Osogbo. The script Mr Oyetola is playing is about the most reprehensible abuse of power in this fourth republic capable of untold and unforeseen consequences on the polity. The general public is aware that there were two different Federal High Court judgments on the local government election of 2022.
“The first judgment was on the suit filed by the People Democratic Party (PDP) which sacked the product of the 2022 polls. The second judgment was on the suit filed by the Action People Party (APP), which also sacked the Chairmen and Councillors produced by the said 2022 Osun Local Government polls. The APC appeal against the judgment obtained by the PDP was partially successful, and the said judgment was struck out based on the timing of filing, having been filed before the notice of election was published.
“It needs to be emphasized that the judgment contains no consequential orders.The APC in its amended notice of Appeal, asked the Court of Appeal to reinstate the sacked chairmen and councilors, but the Court of Appeal in its wisdom said it has become an academic exercise. The request for the reinstatement of the Chairmen and Councilors was not granted. However, the Appeal by the APC against the APP judgment did not succeed at the Court of Appeal, which makes the judgment still subsisting and alive.
“The Court of Appeal dismissed the APC appeal against the judgment obtained by the APP. The only legal recourse open to the APC is to appeal the APP judgment and the subsequent rulings of the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court. The Certified True Copies of both judgements had earlier been forwarded to the Osun state Commissioner of Police, the State Director of DSS and the state Commandant of Civil Defense by the Osun state Attorney General for their information and records. The Certified True Copies of both judgments are in the public domain. The judgment of the Court of Appeal on the PDP case was not ambiguous whatsoever. It simply struck out the PDP suit and did not in any of its paragraphs order the reinstatement of the sacked council chairmen and Councilors.”
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