Stories From Richard Akintade, Osogbo
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, yesterday, called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to insist on the rule of law by instructing the Inspector General of Police, the Director General of DSS, the Commandant General of the Civil Defence Corps not to obey any order from the former Governor of the state, Mr Gboyega Oyetola in causing mayhem in Osun State starting from today.
Governor Adeleke while addressing the world press conference at the banquet hall of the Government House, alerted the national and global audience about a deliberate plot to create chaos and anarchy in Osun state, the State security chiefs should also be called to order.
According to the Governor, “This evil plot is being spearheaded by the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Mr Gboyega Oyetola in active collaboration with the Osun State Commissioner of Police, the Osun state Director of DSS and the State Commandant of the Civil Defence Corps.
“I know, as a matter of fact, that Mr. President will never authorise a dictatorial violation of the constitution irrespective of who is involved. It is crucial to add that Mr. President will never support any action that is capable of generating bloodbath and bloodshed.
“He is issuing illegal directives to security operatives to enforce illegality simply because he is the nephew of Mr. President.
“I chose to alert the nation before my people are killed or maimed by a Minister dropping the name of Mr. President in cahoot with the Osun State security operatives obeying unlawful orders.
“The bone of contention is the brazen effrontery to return to office council chairmen sacked by a subsisting court Judgment using a different court decision, which has no consequential order.
“Let me make it clear that the said Council Chairmen were sacked before I was sworn in as governor of Osun State, contrary to the lies being peddled, that the Chairmen and councilors were sacked by my Executive Order.
“For emphasis, l want to state that I had nothing to do with the sacking of the chairmen and councilors produced by the Osun 2022 local government polls.The Chairmen and Councilors were sacked by two different judgments of the Federal High Court, Osogbo.
“The general public is aware that there were two different Federal High Court judgments on the local government election of 2022.
“The first judgment was on the suit filed by the Peoples Democratic Party ,PDP, which sacked the product of the 2022 polls. The second judgment was on the suit filed by the Action People Party ,APP, which also sacked the Chairmen and Councillors produced by the said 2022 Osun Local Government polls.
“We have it on good authority that Mr Gboyega Oyetola has instructed the Osun state Commissioner of Police, the state Director of the DSS and the state Commandant of civil defence corps to mobilise security operatives from within Osun to effect the non existent judgement by forcefully taking over the local governments on Monday.
“Mr Oyetola and the police boss have been holding a series of meetings on how to effect the illegal operations.
“We affirm that Mr Gboyega Oyetola has no constitutional authority to issue directives to the security agencies”, Governor Adeleke concluded.
