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Osun LG Crisis: Supreme Court Alone Can Overturn Feb 10 Ruling, APC Warns Adeleke, PDP

Published by Tope Fakinlede on June 24th, 2025.

Osun LG Crisis: Supreme Court Alone Can Overturn Feb 10 Ruling, APC Warns Adeleke, PDP

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As tensions persist over the leadership of local government councils in Osun State, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has cautioned the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Governor Ademola Adeleke against misrepresenting a recent Court of Appeal ruling delivered in Akure.

The APC, in a statement issued Monday by its legal adviser in Osun, Adegoke Ogunsola, stressed that only the Supreme Court has the legal standing to overrule the February 10, 2025, judgment that reinstated APC-elected local government chairmen and councillors, whose election had previously been nullified by a Federal High Court verdict in 2022.

Ogunsola criticized the PDP and Adeleke’s administration for celebrating the Court of Appeal’s June 13 decision, suggesting it was done with a deliberate intent to mislead. He clarified that the June ruling did not reverse the February 10 judgment. According to him, the latest court decision simply declined a motion to reinstate an appeal that was struck out on January 13, 2025, over procedural errors.

He further explained that the dismissed appeal involved the same subject matter already resolved in Appeal No. CA/AK/270/2022, which had favored the APC. The February 10 decision, he noted, had nullified previous rulings of the Federal High Court from September 15 and November 25, 2022, and had also thrown out the PDP’s lawsuit (Suit No: FHC/OS/CS/94/2022), thereby affirming the legitimacy of APC’s candidates elected in the October 15, 2022, local government polls.

“These judgments are still in force and have not been challenged at the Supreme Court,” Ogunsola asserted. He also accused the PDP of attempting to deceive the public and law enforcement by referencing a council election it reportedly conducted on February 22, 2025—a poll Ogunsola said has no legal basis and was not among the issues reviewed by the court.

“No one asked the court to rule on the so-called PDP council election during the relisting hearing,” he emphasized.