The Government of the State of Osun and the Congress of all progressives (APC) disagree on the judgment of the Court of Appeal with respect to the elections of the local government of 2022.
The APC states that the sentence restores the local government presidents elected 2022, while the state government disputes this, saying that the Court of Appeals did not return to the presidents elected by APC to the position.
The members of the APC in the State of OSun have been celebrating the trial that returned to the local government presidents of 2022.
However, the state government dismissed APC's claim.
A statement by the State Commissioner for Public Information and Lighting, Kolapo Alimi, explains that the Court of Appeals did not return to the elected presidents of APC, and added that the only valid sentence that subsists is the order of the court that annulled the elections held.
The statement urged security agencies to have anyone who wants to cause problems in the state.
The statement said: “The attention of the Government of the State of OSun has been attracted to the judgment of the Court of Appeals, delivered today, Monday, February 10, 2025, in which the call of origin presented by the PDP to challenge the validity of The election held on October 15, 2022 was dismissed because Ossiec had not published the notice of the elections before the lawsuit was filed.
“The simple implication of today's judgment is that the PDP never presented any cases to challenge the validity of that choice.
“However, there is another lawsuit filed by the Poplos of Action (APP) against INEC, Ossiec, APM Babarinde Nurudoen Idoowu, ApGA, APC and Prince Gboyega Famodum that challenged the validity of the local government elections held 15 October 2022.
“In its judgment in the no FHC/OS/CS/103/22, the Federal Superior Court annulled the election of the local government held by Ossiec on October 15, 2022 and made the following clear and positive consequent consistent orders:
“The election of the LG Councils throughout the State of OSun held on October 15, 2022 in accordance with the notification of the election issued on 8/15/2022 is declared unconstitutional, invalid, null and null for violation of the Constitution and the breach of sections 28.29, 32.98 and 150 of Electoral Law 2022.
“All persons or individuals occupying offices in the state councils of the local government under this election are dismissed to have such offices;
“Sections 25 and 26 of the Law of the Independent Electoral Commission of the State of Osun 2022 have been promulgated in contravention of paragraph 12 of Part II, the second schedule to the Constitution and is inconsistent with sections 29 and 32 of the Electoral Law of 2022, was attributed.
“The previous sentence, which was pronounced by the Federal Superior Court on November 30, 2022 by the Hon. Justice N. Ayo Emmanuel, of the Federal Superior Court of Bearsogbo, was appealed against the appeal without CA/AK/226m/2024. and the Court of Appeals affirmed the sentence in the ruling delivered on January 13, 2025.
“Taking into account the previous positions, the only valid trial that remains to the present is the order of the court that annulled the election made as previously stated.
“Therefore, we need to inform all the citizens of the State of OSun, above all, the security agents and the heads of the local government administrations (HLA) to take note of the fact that there is no trial by restoring the presidents of the presidents of the local government and not the various local government councils in Osun.
“We urge security agents to arrest and prosecute anyone, regardless of how highly located, to interrupt the current peace enjoyed in our beloved state.”
Meanwhile, the legal advisor of OSun APC, Adegoke Ogunsola, while responding, said that local government elections cannot be held in the State, and added that the decision of the Court of Appeals has affirmed that the terms of the position of the presidents From the local government and the directors chosen on the platform of all progressives, Congress in 2022 is still existing and has not expired.
He said: “Our attention has been called the spontaneous abortion issued by Mr. Hashim Abioye, the alleged president of the Independent Electoral Commission of the State of Osun who has been captured by the government of the Popular Democratic Party in the state of Osun.
“In this spontaneous abortion of Mr. Abioye, it was proposed to misrepresent the meaning and import of the decision of the Court of Appeals in the appeal decided today, on February 10, 2025 as if said decision did not restore the incorrect one. Presidents and counselors of the Local Government of APC.
“This is far from the truth, since the Court of Appeals in an unmistakable language annulled the decision of the Federal Superior Court that erroneously eliminated the presidents and councilors of the elected local government. With the decision of the Court of Appeals, the terms of the position of the presidents and councilors of the local government elected on the platform of the Congress of all the progressive in 2022 still exist and have not expired.
“In the circumstances, the OSEIC committed in February 2025 cannot hold the local government elections to overreach the decision of the Court of Appeals and the preserved terms of the presidents and councilors of the oppressed local government, denied and victims who were duly elected 2022222 “
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