From Lateef Dada, Osogbo
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has alerted the Inspector General of Police, Director-General of Department of State Services (DSS) and Office of the National Security Adviser, about the looming crisis being orchestrating by the Sun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
According to the APC, Governor Adeleke was planning to procure a judgement from the state high court, Ikirun, to flush out the reinstated chairmen and councillors from the local government and subject the state to another round of anarchy.
Addressing a press conference at the Ilerioluwa Campaign Office, Ogo-Oluwa, Osogbo, yesterday, the APC, through a former state Commissioner for Information, Sunday Akere, revealed that the state government had concluded an arrangement to procure the ‘kangaroo judgment’ from the court to be presided over by Justice I. O. Adeleke, on April 17, 2025, with a view to perverting the course of justice and bringing the sponsored PDP ‘selected chairmen and hoodlums’ to the councils through the backdoor.
The APC disclosed that it reliably gathered that it is the purchased order of mandamus from the pliable high court judge in Ikirun that Governor Adeleke is banking on to bring the ‘illegally-selected chairmen’ of the PDP to the council with the aid of Amotekun Corps and thugs by all means without reflecting on the consequences of his action to security of lives and property.
The APC vowed to resist any illegal means capable of causing political unrest and undermining the security and sanctity of the judiciary in the state, saying, “Adeleke’s executive recklessness, security compromise, abuse of power and judicial integrity will be resisted without apology.”
The party accused Adeleke’s government of grounding the local government activities by financially inducing the leadership of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) to illegally withdraw the services of the state and local government workers at the local government secretariats, which has invariably denied the people of the state essential services being provided by the local government councils in all the 30 local government councils and the area office, Modakeke in the last two months.
“It is on April 17, 2025, with procured kangaroo ruling that the council workers who have abandoned their jobs for over two months, intend to go back to work.
“The procured judgement is, among others, to violently chase away the reinstated local government chairmen out of the local government councils against the judgment of the Appeal Court by contemporaneously enlisting the services of Amotekun Corps to violently attack and chase away our elected chairmen from the local government secretariats across the state,” APC said.
Reacting, the spokesperson to Governor Adeleke, Olawale Rasheed, said the APC was afraid of imminent backlash over its illegal occupation of local government secretariats and decided to embark on an open blackmail of the judiciary.
He confirmed that the elected council chairmen under the PDP had approached the court, seeking a declaration, to allow the chairmen, elected on February 22, 2025, resume to their offices.
Rasheed also confirmed that the NULGE has approached the court to, among other prayers, stop the purported imposition of APC chairmen and councillors on the local governments and stop parading themselves as validly elected council chairmen and councillors.