The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has supported the governor of Osun State Ademola Adeleke’s choice to revoke the Certificate of Return for local council chairmen chosen in the local elections held on October 15.
Six executive orders by Adeleke overturned Gboyega Oyetola‘s predecessor’s choices, including the hiring of employees and the installation of traditional leaders.
Among other things, he ordered the immediate suspension of the Chairman of the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC), Segun Oladitan, as well as six other members of the Commission.
Debo Ologunagba, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, claimed that all of the decisions made by the new governor were correct in an interview with The Punch on Monday.
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According to the PDP spokesman, governor Adeleke decided to prioritise his programmes and fix the alleged errors made by the previous administration because the state has been under the thumb of an irresponsible and careless administration for eight years.
Isaac Kekemeke, the APC National Vice Chairman for the South-West, made some remarks that Ologunagba felt were superfluous because the governor had simply dissolved the elected council executives in accordance with the court’s decision.
“We don’t want to elevate Kekemeke’s comments to a point of national discourse. When a government comes on, it has its priority and part of the obligation of the PDP government from our mission statement is that we want to rescue and rebuild Nigeria.
“When the APC makes a comment from afar, you disregard it because it is not worth it. So the governor has obeyed the court order by dissolving that charade.
‘’The people are happy with his decision because of the madness of this APC in the last eight years. No tangible project was established but corruption and recklessness were the order of the day.
“Osun state was in the jugular of reckless and irresponsible government for eight years. A new government is now in place and it is settling down to correct the mistakes of old. If there are illegalities, they should be corrected.
“One of such is the irresponsible and reckless renaming of Osun state as State of Osun which is completely unconstitutional because we are conscious of the constitutionality of our process.
“For us, we are a rule of law party, we follow the process and if there are actions that have been taken that are unconstitutional, any responsible governor which Senator Adeleke represents must reverse that.
“Another thing is the unconstitutional conduct of elections to the local government. They were advised but because the APC is run by people who are not interested in the rule of law and believe in impunity; they went ahead to conduct an illegal election which of a court of competent jurisdiction has set aside.”
