APC urges FG to withhold allocations to Osun LGs

APC urges FG to withhold allocations to Osun LGs

THE All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, urged the Federal Government to withhold allocations to local government areas in Osun State, following what the party described as an illegal constitution of council heads by Governor Ademola Adeleke.

This came as Governor Adeleke inaugurated the new council chairmen.

The APC, in a statement, said in wanton disregard for the rule of law, and a valid and subsisting judgment of the Court of Appeal, Governor Adeleke had conducted “what he purported to be a local government election in the state on  Saturday, February 22, 2025.”

The party’s spokesperson, Mr Felix Morka, in a statement, said: “In keeping with the rule of law, it is our expectation that the Federal Government will make federal allocation for local governments available only to democratically elected and judicially certified local government officials in Osun State.

“In effect, the Court of Appeal nullified the judgment of the Federal High Court and reinstated the sacked local government officials until the expiration of their term of office in October 2025. That is the valid, subsisting and binding legal position on the matter.

“Following the sack of the local government officials in 2022, Governor Adeleke appointed illegal and unconstitutional ‘caretaker committees’ to run the affairs of local government councils in the state in egregious violation of Section 7(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which stipulates that ‘the system of local government by democratically elected local government councils is under this Constitution guaranteed’.

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“The purported last Saturday’s fresh election conducted by Governor Adeleke and his PDP is nothing but a disgraceful sham, illegal, unconstitutional and violently contemptuous of the valid and subsisting judgment of the Court of Appeal, and of no effect whatsoever.

“The exercise was a reckless waste of public funds, and an irresponsible incitement to further violence in an already volatile atmosphere in the state.