The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the state Governor Ademola Adeleke of feeding the traditional rulers in the state a tissue of lies in order to whip up unmerited sentiment for himself and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
We were even thinking that the governor whose hallmark of his administration has been ceaseless lies would have another thing to tell the highly revered royal fathers in the state on the Court of Appeal reinstated local government council chairmen and councillors. But lo and behold, a monumental disappointment was the plight of the meeting.
Governor Adeleke should allow the highly respected traditional rulers to have their rest as it is when he is in trouble that he remembers that there are traditional rulers in the state, whereas, he had exposed some of them to ridicule and odium through his obnoxious executive orders at the onset of his administration.
It is an elementary principle of law that a lower court does not have the power either to challenge or overturn the decision of the superior court. The Court of Appeal had adjudicated on the issue at stake on the 10th day of February, 2025 and the appeal against same lies at the Supreme Court.
We challenge Governor Adeleke and his cohorts to approach the Supreme Court if they are convinced that they have sufficient cause of action instead of shopping for the procurement of judgements in some obscured High Courts in the State.
What is Governor Adeleke saying? Is he saying that he knows better than the Attorney-General of the Federation who advised him against the holding of the charade he called local government council elections where election results were generated by his teleguided supposed state independent electoral commission?
The number one law officer of the nation who had studied the 10th February, 2025 Court of Appeal judgement expressly stated that there was no need to hold any local government council elections in the state as there were no vacancies. The Inspector-General of Police also told the governor that the security report in the state would not support any elections.
We demand from Governor Adeleke to tell the whole world where the election was held as there was no election in the state on the day he was flaunting to the traditional rulers who were also in their different domains on the stated day.
Our advice for the embattled Governor Adeleke is to stop wasting his time on frivolities concerning the reinstated APC local government council chairmen and councillors who are the products of the judgement of the Court of Appeal.
The governor has the latitude to challenge the Court of Appeal judgement at the Supreme Court and not a lower court in the corner of the state.
Why is Governor Adeleke afraid of the Supreme Court?
The reinstated APC council chairmen and councillors have come to stay and the governor should learn how to co-govern with them without any hindrance because it was the same way that Governor Adeleke was elected that the APC council chairmen and councillors were also elected.
e-SIGNED:
Mogaji KOLA OLABISI,
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