Osun APC accuses Adeleke of plotting ‘judicial coup’ to reinstate PDP LG chairmen
The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has accused Governor Ademola Adeleke’s administration of plotting to use a court order to reinstate local government chairmen elected under the Peoples Democratic Party.
Addressing journalists in Osogbo on behalf of the leadership of the party on Sunday, ex-Osun Information Commissioner, Mr Sunday Akere, said the administration of Adeleke planned to actualise its plan using an order of court.
Akere who was flanked by the ex-member of Osun State House of Assembly, Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, ex-Osun State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy, Adebayo Adeleke, and ex-Special Adviser to Osun Governor on Education, Jamiu Olawumi, said the government was working towards getting a judgment from an Osun State High Court sitting in Ikirun on April 17, 2025.
The ex-commissioner said the plan to use the order of mandamus from the court to bring the chairmen elected on the platform of the PDP to the council secretariats currently being controlled by court-reinstated APC chairmen and councillors, with the aid of Amotekun Corps and hoodlums, may lead to chaos.
Akere insisted that the plot to bring PDP chairmen into it LGA Secretariats may throw the state into a fresh round of unrest, and declared readiness of the party to resist any illegal means to hijack the council from its chairmen.
Akere said, “The Governor Adeleke-led government is banking on is to engage in a judicial coup by procuring mandamus order for the illegal local government council chairmen and councillors from a High Court judge in Ikirun on the 17th day of April, 2025.
“The illegal local council chairmen and councillors who have been staying off the councils would seek the mandamus order from the High Court against Governor Adeleke who subsequently would not object but rather prevail on the already stationed Amotekun Corps with daredevil thugs to invade the council Secretariats across the state with maximum force.
“In the arrangement made by Governor Adeleke and his co-travellers, it is the illegally-elected council chairmen and councillors whom the council workers who have been staying off the council Secretariats would accompany to the various councils which would lead to pandemonium and chaos across the state.”
He also referenced a suit filed by the All Peoples Party accusing the APC of contempt of court by ignoring a judgment that nullified their October 15, 2022, election.
But Akere insisted the state government was engineering a “judicial coup,” and vowed the APC would resist any illegal move to take over the local councils.
He said the party had previously petitioned the National Judicial Council over alleged abuse and would not hesitate to do so again.
But while responding to the allegations in a statement, the spokesperson for the Osun Governor, Olawale Rasheed, described APC’s allegations as a mere blackmail, noting that the party was afraid of an imminent backlash over its illegal occupation of local government secretariats.
Rasheed added that the APC is currently facing three lawsuits over alleged invasion of the local government secretariats, saying the elected local government chairmen and councillors of PDP in the February 21 poll under ALGON and the state local government workers under NULGE are two of the cases.
He further said the third matter was filed by the All Peoples Party, which sued the APC for contempt of court for ignoring a subsisting court judgement that sacked its chairmen elected in the October 15, 2022, local government election.
“In all these cases, Governor Ademola Adeleke did not and has no intention of instituting any court action after his directive to PDP elected chairmen and councilors to abide by the rule of law and avoid violence,” Rasheed said.
Rasheed, who dismissed the opposition’s party’s threat to resist any attempt for planned resumption by the PDP, also said APC “plot to deploy violence in support of the illegal court-sacked Yes/No chairmen is mere fantasy and failed attempt to escape the legal consequences of their unconstitutional and reprehensible occupation of local governments secretariats across Osun state.”
He called on Osun APC to face its legal battle and leave the state governor “out of its self-imposed and self-inflicted moral, legal and political injuries.”
