LG Funds: Osun APC Says Feb 10 Appeal Court Ruling Remains ‘Valid’, Calls PDP Reps Members ‘Meddlesome People’

Osun State APC asserted on Thursday that the ruling delivered by the Court of Appeal, Akure, Ondo State on February 10, 2025, which the party claimed had reinstated the APC local government chairmen and councilors elected on October 15, 2022, remains valid while noting that the judgment delivered by the same court on June13, 2025, has reaffirmed this decision.

‘For the avoidance of doubt, the holding as contained below remains the position of the Court by the lead judgment of the Court of Appeal on 13th June, 2025, it stated inter alia:

1. ‘And the judgment of the Federal High Court, in Suit No. FHC/OS/CS/94/2022 which nullified the said election, the 1st Appellant in the aforesaid appeal is the same Appellant/Applicant in the instant application under consideration, I draw attention to this fact in order to show that the 3rd Appellant/Applicant who was pursuing the sister appeal based on the same fact and similar judgment of the same judex – Ayo Emmanuel J, cannot claim ignorance for not compiling the record of appeal or have any credible reason for abandoning the pursuit of this appeal that was dismissed on 13th January, 2025, the sudden attempt to resurrect this appeal into the decision of this court in the sister appeal will only lead to confusion and this court will resist such attempt to lure it to unwittingly sit on appeal or review its decision in Appeal No: CA/AK/270/2022…’.

2. Hon. Justice Ayo Omoleye JCA adopts same as His at paragraphs 1 and 2 of page 57 of the same judgment. 

3. Hon. Justice Shagari JCA too adopts same as His judgment in paragraphs 1 and 2 of page 61 of the same judgment. 

4. Contribution of Hon. Justice Omoleye JCA on validity of the make-belief of 22nd February, 2025 being painted as elections, apart from not being the issue before the Court of Appeal in Appeal No. CA/AK/15/2025 is what is best called obiter not forming part of the ruling.

5. There is nowhere when the validity of ruse called elections of 22nd February, 2025 was ever tested before any trial court so as to give the Appeal Court power to pronounce on it.

6. The Appeal No. CA/AK/270/2022 was never dismissed and the Court itself took judicial notice of this when it refused to relist the sister appeal on the reason that such may cause a confusion or make the Court of Appeal to review its decision or sit appeal on it in 13th June 2025 ruling. This forms part of what Hon. Justices Omoleye and Shagari adopted as their own ruling too.

Let no one mislead members of the public as February 10, 2025, judgment stands and it has been reaffirmed on 13th June 2025 ruling’ the party submitted in a statement made available to Team@orientactualmags.com by its spokesman, Mr Kola Olabisi on Thursday.

The party accused those he called ‘PDP politician-lawyers’ of misinterpreting the court ruling in order to mislead members of the public.

‘It is instructive to note that the Court of Appeal judgment of 10th February, 2025 can only be reviewed or altered by the Supreme Court and no such process was ever put on the way’ the statement added. 

In separate statement, the party also condemned the steps taken by members of the Caucus of Osun State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the House of Representatives in respect of the funds belonging to local governments in the state calling them ‘meddlesome people’.

Recall that eight members of the House of Representatives from the state, who are PDP members, had sent a letter to  President Bola Ahmed Tinubu alleging that the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN)  has withheld allocations of 30 local governments in the state for four months now.

‘The efforts of the plans of the Osun PDP House of Representatives Caucus to twist the real issue at stake have further exposed them as a bundle of legislators who are out to misinform and mislead the unsuspecting members of the public.

We make bold to state that the confused Osun State PDP Caucus allegation of withholding the local government funds by the CBN is a fallacy as it is a known fact that the legally elected council executive officers who have the legal right to the said allocations are currently processing the withdrawal of the allocations.

It is shameful that the federal legislators who collected  billions of naira as Constituency Allowances without meaningful projects to show for it could have the effrontery to write a letter to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on  the Osun State local government allocations. 

We are asking the meddlesome members of the Osun State Caucus in the House of Representatives to  account for  the constituency projects first, before they can be considered eminently qualified for having the moral rectitude and legal right to be asking questions about the local  government affairs’ the statement added-Team@orientactualmags.com  Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com.  Thank you