Your Planned Protest Over Reinstated APC Council Chairmen, Councillors Ill-motivated - Opposition Warns Adeleke

...Tasks Police, Other Security Services To Be On Guard

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has advised the good people of the state to be wary of the antics of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led government's plan on Monday to stage or act a protest capable of disrupting the peace of the state by some PDP members who illegally parade themselves as chairmen and councillors of non-vacant seats in the local government councils across the state.

These government sponsored jesters allegedly claim to have emerged on 22nd February, 2025 through the charade but called election purportedly held by yet another wing of the PDP masquerading as the current State Independent Electoral Commission (OSSIEC).

Information at our disposal revealed that the embattled PDP-led state government resulted to the planning of the protest in order to whip up unmerited sentiment for its members illegally-selected and tagged the council chairmen and councillors.

This is believed may likely have resultant effect of rocking the peace of the state as there is a precedent of such which occured on 17th February, 2025 in which one of the reinstated APC local government chairmen was killed.

Furthermore, it is obvious that hoodlums loyal to the PDP may hijack the protest and start attacking all the local government secretariats across the state again. 

The make-believe protest may, of course, be made to look like a spontaneous one but its planned hidden motive seems to cause cataclysm across the state during which the reinstated chairmen and councillors with some leaders of the APC may be marked for possible attack during the melee.

It was also rumoured that some political thugs have been hired for the protest and tasked to work in tandem with the Amotekun Corps under the command of a controversial retired Chief Superintendent of Police who hails from Oyo State and has been doing dirty jobs for his principal dating back from when he was in the service of the police to date.

We want to appeal to the state commissioner of police and the heads of the statutory security services in the state to be on guard with a view to curbing the ploy of some disgruntled and selfish political merchants in the state who are desperately hell-bent in heating up the polity more than what is being experienced for no just cause.

Our revered traditional rulers should prevail on their subjects on the need for them not to be willing instruments in the hands of the selfish political functionaries who probably are safekeeping their own children outside the country but are dangling carrots to the unsuspecting innocent children of the downtrodden masses to be used as agents of disorderliness.

Our appeal, as a responsible political party, goes to the parents and guardians to warn their children and wards to desist from being used for nefarious political activities by the spent and drowning political entities who are struggling for already lost relevance.

We want to remind Governor Adeleke and his cohorts that the state is a creation of the law and not their estate which should be run according to their whims and caprices but in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

We are yet to fathom the reason why Governor Adeleke is finding it difficult to seek redress at the Supreme Court having lost at the Court of Appeal via the landmark judgement of the 10th day of February, 2025 that reinstated the APC local government council chairmen and councillors?

Must the heavens fall because Governor Adeleke's party lost an election to the APC on the issue of the local government council administration in the state?

One thing that is crystal clear is that should there be a breakdown of law and order reminiscent to the type that claimed the lives of our members recently when the reinstated chairman of Irewole Local Government Council Area, Hon Remi Abass,  and others were brutally murdered by the PDP thugs, Governor Adeleke should be held responsible.

Is it a new thing to lose an election? Why is it that Governor Adeleke is losing sleep because the Court of Appeal has reinstated the APC local government council chairmen and councillors? There is more to it than meet the eyes.

The current political firmament in the state is a constitutional issue which had been judiciously adjudicated upon by the Court of Appeal against the approach of that of Banana Republic which is the hallmark of the Adeleke administration.

Our one penny advice for the embattled Governor Adeleke is that though he and his deputy have immunity. Such however, should not be the passport for him to spill by a kick the metaphorical bowl of milk being enjoyed by him within his constitutionally-allowed four-year term.

What we are reminding Governor Adeleke of is that his enjoyed immunity does not make him to be above the law of the land. It will be too bad for the Ede-born satellite governor to be the architect of his own undesirable events.

e-SIGNED:

Mogaji KOLA OLABISI,                                             Osun State APC Director of Media and Information.