Osun State LG Election: Ozekhome Writes AGF to Obey Court Judgements

By Reporter

Prof Mike Ozekhome, SAN has written the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) urging him to respect and execute the various court judgements on the Local Government administration in Osun State.

In a letter dated June 23, 2025 from the Chambers of Mike Ozekhome, the solicitor charged the AGF to urgently respect and execute all the court judgements affirming the legality of the election that produced the 30 PDP local government chairmen and councilors in Osun State.

Part of the 18 pages letter reads: “We are Solicitors to the 30 Local Government
Chairmen/Councilors of Osun State that were duly elected under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP (our Client).

“It is upon their firm instructions we respectfully write to bring to your attention some critical judicial pronouncements that legitimized and legalized the 22nd February, 2025 election that brought in the PDP Local Government Chairmen/Councilors in Osun State on 22nd February, 2025 and sworn in on the 23d of February, 2025.

“This was pursuant to a judgement delivered by the Osun State High Court on the 21″of
February, 2025.

“Unfortunately, these judgements have been and are still being brazenly flouted by some sacked APC persons who are falsely parading and laying claim to the same positions even after their election had been invalidated and nullified by the Federal High Court, Osogbo Judicial Division.

“They are using and hiding under federal might and your earlier erroneous pronouncements and directive to the Honourable Minister of Finance and co-ordinating Minister of the Economy to justify the impunity of occupying and wrongfully laying siege on the Local Government Council secretariats. They do this to the detriment of the 30 legitimate Chairmen/Councilors validly elected on the platform
of the PDP.

“They persist in this impunity viet armis, deploying the Army, Police, DSS, NSCDC and other security agencies to aid their illegality.

“Your said letter dated 26th March, 2025, unfortunately encouraged the Hon. Minister of Finance and Co-ordinating Minister of the Economy to aid the illegality being perpetrated by the sacked 30 APC Chairmen/Councillors. Such instruction, most
respectfully, sir, constitutes an affront on extant decisions of all courts of law in this unfortunate matter.

“A copy of your said letter to the Hon. Minister of Finance and co-ordinating Minister of the Economy wherein you erroneously stated that “the elected officials of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are the ones running the affairs of the Osun State Local Government Councils until the end of their tenure in October, 2025, and are therefore entitled to be paid the statutory allocations until the end of the said period”is attached herewith as Annexure A. Page 2 of 18.”

Ozekhome disagreed with the AGF on his position. “It is not correct that the APC officials are the ones currently running the affairs of Osun State. It is the PDP. This self-help mantra by the sacked APC Chairmen/Councilors has been severally deprecated by the apex court in a plethora of cases.

“See NWAKIRE v COP (1992) LPELR-2097 (SC) 42-43, A-D; and MILITARY GOVERNOR OF LAGOS STATE V. OJUKWU & ANOR (1986)LPELR-3186(SC).

“This letter is therefore to respectfully draw your attention to the unanimous decision of the Court of Appeal, Akure Judicial Division, in Appeal No: CA/AK/15/2025, between ALLIED PEOPLE MOVEMENT & 2 ORS V ACTION PEOPLES PARTY (APP) & 4 ORS, delivered on 13th June, 2025.

“This decision has finally settled once and for all, the correct legal status of the contending parties (the APC and the PDP).”

The local government administration in Osun State has broken down after Governor Ademola Adeleke dissolution of the 30 councils and conducted fresh elections to replace them.

Since February 23, 2025 when Adeleke sworn in the elected Local Government Chairmen, different court judgements have failed to restore peace in the council’s.