Osun State chapters of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Celebration governorship candidate, Adedamola Adebayo have expressed contrasting interpretations of the Supreme Courtroom ruling on the problem of withheld native authorities allocations.
That is as every claimed victory whereas issuing warnings to their supporters and opponents.
These reactions had been expressed in separate statements made accessible to DAILY POST on Saturday in Osogbo.
The Osun APC via its Chairman, Tajudeen Lawal, stated the celebration applauded the Supreme Courtroom’s judgement, describing it as a reinforcement of the July 2024 ruling which affirmed monetary autonomy for native authorities councils within the state.
The celebration stated the decision once more nullified the actions of the alleged illegally elected PDP chairmen and councillors.
The APC, nevertheless, criticised the Osun State Home of Meeting for passing the Native Authorities Accounts Administration Invoice, 2025, shortly after the judgement was delivered.
It described the transfer as “unconstitutional and an try to undermine the court docket’s resolution.”
The assertion learn, “The invoice is unconstitutional and a failed try to scuttle the Supreme Courtroom’s judgment in July 2024 over monetary autonomy for the native governments, which was by implication bolstered immediately in one other Supreme Courtroom judgement the place the Osun State Authorities and ‘sit-at-home appointed chairmen and councillors’ misplaced gallantly.”
The celebration questioned the pace with which lawmakers handed the invoice, alleging that the legislators had been “ignited by the fireplace of authorized battle they ignorantly and maliciously initiated.”
It insisted that the rule of regulation had prevailed with the most recent verdict.
The APC which added that the laws was meant to weaken the authority of native authorities chairmen and councillors reinstated underneath its platform careworn that the invoice is not going to stand and urged members of the general public to carry the lawmakers accountable.
It warned the Meeting towards measures it claimed had been designed to mislead residents.
The celebration additionally alleged that some people had been impersonating members of the Affiliation of Native Governments of Nigeria, describing the act as legal.
The assertion added, “In case the ‘sit-at-home’ purported native authorities council chairmen should not have an adviser, recourse could also be made to educated folks to coach them that their ineffective go well with on the Supreme Courtroom was struck out.”
In the meantime, the PDP governorship candidate for the 2026 Osun election, Adebayo, additionally welcomed the ruling however supplied a special interpretation of its implications.
Adebayo, who secured 919 votes within the celebration’s major held on Tuesday, stated the decision paved the best way for PDP-elected chairmen to imagine workplace.
In an announcement issued in Osogbo, he urged celebration members to have a good time the judgement peacefully and cautioned them towards any type of lawlessness.
He famous that the celebration had maintained decorum all through the authorized proceedings and may proceed to take action.
Adebayo stated, “We obtained the decision of the Supreme Courtroom with pleasure as it will definitely affirmed our place all of the whereas. The PDP is the final word beneficiary of the sound judgement of the court docket and, by extension, these elected on the platform of the celebration also needs to have a good time this victory.”
He warned political opponents towards violence and vowed to make use of authorized means to make sure that PDP-elected council management assumed management of the native authorities areas with out disruption.
The governorship candidate recommended the self-discipline displayed by PDP members for the reason that case started, including that such behaviour would contribute to the event anticipated from these elected to public workplace.
“I urge our supporters to stay dedicated to the celebration as the following election approached,” he stated.
DAILY POST had reported that the Supreme Courtroom on Friday struck out a go well with filed by the Osun State Authorities looking for to compel the Federal Authorities to launch withheld allocations to native governments within the state.
A seven-member panel dominated six to at least one that the go well with lacked authorized competence.
Earlier stories indicated that each the PDP and APC-aligned Affiliation of Native Authorities of Nigeria, ALGON members had claimed victory following the ruling, every welcoming the court docket’s resolution.
