…Advises govern to stop playing victim
The Osun State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Sunday bemoaned Governor Ademola Adeleke’s conduct on the Appeal Court’s judgment that reinstated the unjustly sacked Council Chairmen and Councillors in the state.
The party admonished Adeleke to obey the court order instead of playing politics capable of undermining the integrity and sanctity of the judiciary to whom he was a beneficiary.
Addressing a World Press Conference at the Ilerioluwa Campaign Office, Osogbo, the APC State Chairman, Alhaji Tajudeen Lawal expressed displeasure over the unruly conduct of the government officials since the Court’s pronouncement.
Lawal warned Governor Adeleke and his unproductive appointees to refrain from any act capable of causing sociopolitical unrest and setting the state on fire as the Appeal Court’s judgment was cleared, direct and straightforward.
“We have invited you today to intimate you of the recent judgment delivered by the Court of Appeal in respect of the sacked elected council officials of our party whose mandate was restored by the Appellate Court.
“Rather than stoking crisis in the state, the most honourable thing for Governor Ademola Adeleke to do is to comply with the court order and give protection to the reinstated council Chairmen and Councillors.
“This is not the time to whip up sentiments and seek undue public sympathy as the matter is constitutional and unassailable. Laws are not built on sentiment but rather fact.
“As a responsible party, we have been civil and law abiding that is why we have been seeking every legal means to ensure that the law takes its due course”, Lawal said.
Speaking on the legal implications of the verdict, the State Legal Adviser of the APC, Barrister Adegoke Ogunsola berated Governor Adeleke and his team in government for twisting and misinterpreting the verdict in order to suit their unlawful curiosity and insatiable appetite.
Barrister Ogunsola who described the Press Conference held by the state government as ‘child of self-inflicted frustration’ saying it is unfortunate that the Governor stooped so low below the status of a ward councillor not to talk of the status of a Governor.
“The most disturbing aspect of it occurred when the whole Governor of a state descended so low and falsely levelled unfounded allegations against the persons of the Honourable Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Alhaji Isiaka Adegboyega Oyetola and the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“The Governor unsuccessfully attempted to twist express language of the judgment when he erroneously assumed the duty of the judiciary of interpretation of law. It is very much unfortunate when the Governor further in a figment of imagination asserted that the Minister was leveraging on a contrived relationship with the President to direct the law enforcement agents to act.
“The members of the public are hereby advised to ignore the misrepresentation of facts as sought to be created by the Governor in his sad pettiness. The good people of Osun State are further admonished to find a way to rely on solidly available facts which by no any manipulation cannot be erased or twisted.
“Finally, the Inspector General of Police and all other security apparatus are called to ensure that the misleading information as released by the government is not allowed to degenerate into crisis as same are capable of inciting crises”, Ogunsola averred.
Speaking further on the matter, the former Deputy Governor of Osun State, Benedict Alabi, former Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Prince Adebayo Adeleke Banik and former Special Adviser to ex-Governor Oyetola, Hon. Jamiu Olawumi, counselled Adeleke to toe a path of honour by obeying the rule of law.
The APC chieftains speaking separately said Adeleke should be held responsible should the development snowball to civil and political crises in the state.
