LOCAL GOVT IMBROGLIO: DON'T SET OSUN ON FIRE, LIVE BY REALITY, OSUN ALGON TELLS ADELEKE, ACCORD LOYALISTS ..REFERS THEM TO SECTION 141 ELECTORAL ACT 2026

The leadership of the Osun State Chapter of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), has cautioned Governor Ademola Adeleke, the Osun State Governor to rescind from act capable of setting the state on fire over the control of local government administration in the state.

The ALGON Chairman bemoaned the way and manner the state government has been instigating the so called 'political impostors' who are parading themselves as Council Officers to forcefully takeover the council secretariats in the state.

Osun ALGON, in a statement, signed and made available to newsmen in Osogbo by the ALGON Chairman, Osun State Chapter, who doubled as Executive Chairman, Ifedayo Local Government Area, Hon. Samuel Idowu Abiodun, referred the state government and its functionaries to Section 141 Electoral Act 2026 that empowered person elected to remain in office pending determination of appeal.

"Section 141 of the Nigerian Electoral Act 2026 is about person elected to remain in office pending determination of appeal. It provides as follows:

"Where the election is nullified by the Court and notice of appeal against the decision is given within the stipulated period for appeal, the elected candidate shall, notwithstanding the contrary decision of the Court, remain in office and enjoy all the benefits that accrued to the office pending the determination and shall not be sanctioned for the benefits derived while in office", ALGON quoted. 

Hon. Abiodun affirmed the constitutional procedures on judicial processes that paved rooms for the exhaustion of legal means by elected officers. 

He said the Council Officers of the All Progressives Congress, APC had done the needful on the judgment of the Osogbo Federal High Court delivered few days ago. 

According to him, the elected APC Council Chairmen and Councillors enjoyed the constitutional right to be in office till they exhaust their appeal process up till Supreme Court as stipulated by the law of the land.

"As a matter of fact, we have filed two different appeals on Suit No. FHC/OS/CS/147/2025. There is an Interlocutory appeal at Court of Appeal Abuja which was heard on June 3, 2026 and adjourned to Sept 28, 2026. Similarly there is substantive appeal filed on June 16, 2026 at Court of Appeal Akure against the same judgment.

"So, it is clear in the law that we have the right to appeal so also whoever that is dissatisfied to seek a redress at the superior court just as we have legally and constitutionally done", he added.