Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, described the judgement of the Federal High Court deregistering five political parties as an abuse of court process and a direct violation of a subsisting order of the Court of Appeal.
In a statement by his spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, Adeleke stated that the appeal court had made an order for a stay of proceedings by the Federal High Court. He expressed surprise that the lower court still proceeded to deliver a ruling on a matter already acted upon by the Court of Appeal.
Adeleke stated, “It is on record before Honourable Justice Peter Lifu that in the record of proceedings of the Court of Appeal of 22nd May, 2026 and which was put before his Lordship as Exhibit MAC 2 the Court of Appeal specifically pronounced that ’The delivery of the judgement is still part of the proceedings of the Court.’”
The governor urged the people of the state to be calm as the Court of Appeal was taking up the matter today, Tuesday. He assured the public that the “efforts to stop Osun people from exercising their voting rights will fail by the special grace of Almighty God. The Rule of Law and Humanity shall prevail at the end of the day”.
Adeleke said, “I call on Osun people to remain calm and be assured that our rights will be affirmed and our party, the Accord will be on the ballot on August 15th.
“We will not only be on the ballot; we will win overwhelmingly the forthcoming governorship election. We should remain calm and forge ahead with mobilisation of our people.
“I also want to assure our people that the flag off of our campaign is holding as scheduled tomorrow. They want to distract us. We are going ahead and we are winning this election”, the state governor posited.
“Our lawyers are taking all the necessary steps to right the wrong.”
Adeleke also dismissed an application for tenure elongation by Osun APC chairmen.
The governor, who spoke at a press conference on the political developments in the state, said dismissal of the elongation chairmen’s request conformed with the stipulations of the constitution while the judgement further validated the precedent set by the Supreme Court ruling that tenure elongation was unconstitutional.
He stated, “The court also holds that the sacked chairmen have no legal foundation to file the case in the first place. Based on this ruling, it is clear the Yes/No chairmen’s tenure, if at all they have any, elapsed October 2025.”
Based on the judgement, he called on the Inspector General of Police to direct the Osun State police command to stop their current support for the “Yes/No chairmen”.
“I specifically direct the Commissioner of Police to stop providing further security cover for the illegal occupation of the council Secretariats by the sacked chairmen,” Adeleke said.
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