Osun Govt Reacts As Osun APC Calls For State of Emergency

The Osun State Government has reacted to the call by the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Secretary, Senator Ajibola Basiru for a state of emergency declaration in the state.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Oluomo Kolapo Alimi, said such a call is callous, self-centered, and unlawful.

The government’s statement advised Senator Basiru and his party, the APC, not to throw the peace and tranquility currently enjoyed in Osun into turmoil in an attempt to take the reins of governance through the backdoor.

The statement reads, “I have read what the over ambitious and loud mouthed National Secretary of APC, Senator Ajibola Basiru said concerning the need for the declaration of State of Emergency to be extended by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as done in Rivers State last night to Osun state.

“While the call, no doubt stems from a demented mind as is the case with Senator Ajibola Basiru is, it will be recalled that the same Basiru had in the not too recent past made a similar call when I engaged him on a national television station on the Yes/No local government chairmen in Osun state.

“It must, however, be emphasized that not only Basiru alone holds this senseless and obnoxious impression but the entire APC cohorts and their members/followers in Osun state, who on a daily basis, are scheming for one mischievous device or the other in order to come through the backdoor to take the reigns of governance in Osun state but by the grace of God and with the support of the people of Osun state for the administration of Ademola Adeleke, all the evil machinations against the people oriented government of Ademola Adeleke will not see the light of the day.

“Furthermore, we call on our President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to see through the antics of people like Ajibola Basiru, a rejected and frustrated politician and his already rejected APC apologists in Osun, by rejecting the wicked and baseless call for the declaration of the state of emergency in Osun.

“For any political observers in Osun state, it’s very clear that, Osun APC lacks the popularity, political acceptance and sagacity to face and defeat Ademola Adeleke in any election, hence their resort to all forms of antics to get to power through the back door. One of such antics was their failed attempt to cause mayhem in the state through enforcement of non existence Court of Appeal judgment to reinstate their YES/NO chairmen and Councillors. With that enforcement of non-existetence judgment, they almost put Osun into state of anarchy.

“However, Governor Adeleke, being a man of peace and of the people, saw this coming, hence the directive given to the duly elected local government chairmen in the state not to go to their various LG Secretariats after the swearing in ceremony. Had Governor Adeleke not have been proactive and guided by great wisdom, only God would have known what the APC could have turned the state into while carrying out their Awada Keri keri in the various LG secretariats of our dear state.

“Well, any right thinking person will know and interprete all these political shenanigans of APC to be that of an already frustrated souls looking for whatever means to make Osun ungovernable .

“On the unwarranted and unnecessary political crisis created by the APC in Osun, as a reminder, three cases are now pending before the courts of law

the one instituted by the duly elected local government Chairmen challenging the Yes/ No APC local govt chairmen usurping what is not theirs, thereby calling for their removal from all the Councils Secretariats. This has been slated for hearing on the 17th of April, 2025.

The second is the case instituted by Osun NULGE, fixed for April 15, 2025 for hearing and

the 3rd case has to do with contempt proceedings instituted by APP but yet to be given a date for hearing.

“With all these, couldn’t Basiru be able to read in between the lines that the matters at hand are all legal issues which, should also, be resolved through Court as opposed to calling for the declaration of the state of emergency?”