07/10/2025
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PRESS BRIEFING BY THE CHAIRMAN OF OMOLUABI PROGRESSIVES ON THE IMPOSITION OF THE ILLEGAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT CHAIRMEN AND DIVERSION OF GOVERNMENT FUNDS INTO PRIVATE ACCOUNT, HELD AT ORANMIYAN HOUSE OSOGBO ON 6/ OCTOBER/2025
Ladies and gentlemen of the press,
We have called you here today because democracy in Osun and in Nigeria is under direct attack.
You will recall that the Osun Local Government election of October 15, 2022 was conducted in total disregard of the Electoral Act. A Federal High Court has already nullified those elections. The appeal filed by APC was struck out. That judgment stands today — valid, binding, and unchallenged.
The Omoluabi Progressives view with grave concern the ongoing brazen assault on democracy, rule of law, and the sanctity of our Constitution by the APC-led Federal Government.
It is a matter of judicial record that the Osun State Local Government elections conducted on October 15, 2022, under the so-called OSSIEC Law 2022, have been nullified by a subsisting judgment of the Federal High Court in the Action Peoples Party (APP) suit. That judgment remains valid, binding, and unchallenged since the APC’s appeal was struck out for want of diligent prosecution. By operation of law, therefore, those parading themselves as council chairmen and councillors are YES OR NO ILLEGAL CHAIRMEN. They have no lawful mandate, no constitutional backing, and no electoral legitimacy.
To state the facts of the issue:
1.The State High Court (Ilesa) earlier had Ordered OSSIEC to conduct elections in Osun State after the APC YES/NO sham.
2.You will recollect that there are two Courts of Appeal interventions in the matter. The suit no_ (CA/AK/270/2022) was a pre-election case filed by the PDP which challenged the election on the ground that it did not fulfil the provisions of the Electoral Act on the number of days notice to be given before an election could be held. Although the case was struck out on technical grounds BUT the substa