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The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has stated that it is not surprised that the Governor Ademola Adeleke-led administration's attempt to earn an unmerited political point over a convicted indigene of the state by resorting to a needless propaganda boomeranged against his government.
It would be recalled that the government of Senator Adeleke caused to be pushed into the media space a half-truth that an underage, one Segun Olowookere, who was convicted and sentenced to death by a court in Osun State for stealing only eggs and fowls has been awaiting the execution of his judgement for the past 14 years when facts-check proved otherwise that Olowookere was actually convicted and sentenced to death for armed robbery.
But rather than scoring any political point for the government that is doing little and making the most noise, the twisted issue of the 17-year-old at conviction in 2010 has become a factor that exposed the excesses, lack of capacity and due diligence of the Adeleke government.
Rather than perform optimally to the admiration of Osun people, the government is busy shopping for avenues to score unmerited political point, a development that is further exposing it as an apparently confused administration that is being run by impulse.
While we are not against the granting of a prerogative of mercy for the convict as part of the constitutional powers of the governor, we are however, frowning against the state government's attempt at weaponising the development as an instrument to set the public against the judiciary as it is being witnessed in the corridor of the state government.
We thumb up the Osun State judiciary for acting to type by playing its constitutional role of riding the society of undesirable elements by way of the timely invocation of the law to sanitize the society by not succumbing to emotions and sentiments in carrying out its statutory roles in the society.
It would improve the lot of the Adeleke government by the time its players extend the frontier of their sacrosanct knowledge to the fact that there is no nexus between the law and emotion.
Considering a sentenced and convicted armed robbery convict for prerogative of mercy by a governor should not be a big deal to be unusually played up by any serious government as many of the nation's sub-nationals have been performing in multiple folds similar statutory function of the government without rolling out the drums.
If we may ask, what use is the proposed fact-finding committee promised by Governor Adeleke on the incarceration issue intend to serve? Is the executive arm of government under the subsisting robotic administration in the state querying the judgement of the judiciary?
It is not always productive either personally or corporately for an entity to act before thinking as the resultant effect of such an action is what is currently putting the Osun State Government under Adeleke into unavoidable challenge in the court of the public.
While we are congratulating the family of the Olowookeres of Odo-Otin Local Government Council Area of the state on the opening for a new lease of life for their incarcerated son, Segun, we would like to appeal to the discerning people of the state at large and the state judiciary in particular to view the development with reference to the petty administration of Governor Adeleke that it is pretty difficult for a person to give what it does not possess.
We implore the populace to have solace in the fact that the proverbial smelling object which is being inconveniently and disturbingly felt across the nooks and corners of the state has a constitutional expiry date which is fast knocking.
e-SIGNED:
Chief KOLA OLABISI
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