A recent political controversy has erupted in Osun State over the reported launch of the withheld native authorities allocations to All Progressives Congress, APC, council chairmen and councillors elected within the October 15, 2022 council election.
The Omoluabi Progressives, a bunch throughout the African Democratic Congress, ADC, on Monday, condemned the transfer by the Federal Authorities, describing it as an act of impunity and abuse of energy.
Addressing journalists on the Oranmiyan Home, Osogbo, the Chairman of the group, Alhaji Azeez Adesiji, stated the discharge of the seven-month allocations to the APC chairmen was unlawful and unconstitutional.
Adesiji acknowledged, “These parading themselves as council chairmen and councillors are Sure or No unlawful chairmen with no lawful mandate, no constitutional backing, and no electoral legitimacy.”
He maintained that the Federal Excessive Court docket judgment in Osogbo, which sacked the APC council officers, remained legitimate, binding, and unchallenged, and famous that their attraction was struck out for need of diligent prosecution.
The Omoluabi Progressives additionally accused the APC-led Federal Authorities of trying to control the forthcoming August 8, 2026 governorship election within the state by the management of native authorities funds.
“This isn’t solely unconstitutional however a direct theft of the folks’s assets and an act of political brigandage,” Adesiji stated.
He known as on civil society teams, labour unions, and opposition events to withstand creeping authoritarianism.
The group warned these it known as unlawful chairmen to not tamper with the launched funds, urging anti-corruption companies, together with the Impartial Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offences Fee, ICPC, to intervene instantly.
Nonetheless, reacting to the assertion, the Osun State chapter of the APC described the Omoluabi Progressives’ criticism as belated and pointless, accusing the group of performing behind time.
In a counter assertion signed by the APC Director of Media and Info, Kola Olabisi, the occasion stated the matter of the delayed federal allocations to the native governments had lengthy been settled by the Court docket of Enchantment judgment of February 10, 2025.
He questioned the authority of the Omoluabi Progressives to interpret court docket judgments.
Olabisi famous, “The Enchantment Court docket judgment expressly reinstated the APC native authorities chairmen and councillors, making them the constitutionally elected council officers within the face of the legislation.
“Who conferred the standing of interpreter of the legislation or court docket judgment on the busy-body members and leaders of the questionable Omoluabi Progressives?”
The APC spokesperson accused the Omoluabi group of looking for consideration by political propaganda and steered that the group ought to preoccupy itself with resolving its inside disaster throughout the ADC quite than meddling in Osun’s native authorities affairs.
In response to Olabisi, “There couldn’t have been any want for his or her tirade past mere attention-seeking as that’s the solely means they may very well be heard.
“No fabricated or concocted facet talks can take the place of the Enchantment Court docket judgment which was not challenged within the Supreme Court docket.”
