Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has called on President Bola Tinubu to warn the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Gboyega Oyetola, against causing violence and chaos in the state ahead of the February 22 local council poll.
Governor Adeleke accused Oyetola of allegedly planning to enforce what he termed non-existent Court of Appeal judgment, which purportedly reinstated local council chairmen and councillors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2022, who were sacked by a Federal High Court judgment.
Adeleke spoke at a media briefing in Osogbo. He said:
“The bone of contention is the brazen effrontery to return to office the council chairmen sacked by a subsisting court judgment using a different court decision, which has no consequential order. 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 councillors were sacked by my Executive Order.
Meanwhile, the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), urged Adeleke to stop misleading the public over the Court of Appeal judgment, which purportedly reinstated the sacked council chairmen elected on the platform of the party.
The opposition party said that tactic being deployed by the PDP-led government in the state to hoodwink members of the public over continued disobedience to the court judgment.
