Osun PDP Trying To Play Sympathy Card By Going On Rant About LG Allocations-APC
As the stand-off over the control of the third tier of government in Osun State continues, the state APC on Monday accused the ruling party, the PDP, of going on a rant about local government allocations in order to play the sympathy card while hailing the decision taken by the federal government to withhold funds belonging to local governments in the state.
The state APC in a statement made available to Team@orientactualmags.com by its spokesman, Chief Kola Olabisi urged members of the public to ignore the allegations raised by the ruling party while commending the federal government for taking the decision to keep hold of the local government allocations.
‘The same PDP-led government, which has denigrated the Court of Appeal judgment of 10th February, 2025 which reinstated the APC elected local government chairmen and councilors is now calling for a rule of law which has never changed but strictly observed by the Federal Government in all its doings.
It is not lost on the people how the same PDP had argued that the same AGF be summoned by the National Assembly to render his opinion on the judgment sometimes in February 2025.
One is lost as to the moral and legal justification of the PDP resorting to blackmailing and mudslinging of the president and his cabinet members after they had made all efforts to denigrate and rubbish the legal path toed by the APC and which has earned them success at the Local Government level.
The PDP government is so desperate that it has subjected millions of people at the grassroots to avoidable hardship by ensuring that workers at this level stayed away from work since 16th February 2025, all in quest to frustrate the APC from reaping the fruits of her success from court.
One fact the PDP-led government continuously fails to realize is that the law is not made for it alone. It is not a respecter of anybody. That the PDP could claim the AGF is biased just because he represented former governor Adegboyega Oyetola now Minister of Marine and Blue Economy at the election petition shows the extent of how low the party and its government is on competence and capability to lead any organized society.
It is surprising to know that the same party has been making a fruitless effort to blackmail and conceal the fact that its current Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice too was one of the leading counsels in the same election petition.
Its Commissioner for Justice did not only give opinions over the same judgment but also convened a world press conference where he denigrated the judgment at will and refused to approach the court over his contrived understanding of the judgment.
It is sad that a government that has a sacred duty of upholding the rule of law and sanctity of democratic principles is one resorting to petty blackmail and press bullying to twist the law in its favour.
To set the record straight, the PDP-led government, which is trying to play the victim card in a decoy to manipulate the facts, has instituted in court over seven lawsuits to seek by subterfuge reliefs to overrule the Court of Appeal judgment.
The whole world was surprised to hear that the same party has also approached the Supreme Court over the same deceit designed to rubbish the judgment.
The Federal Government deserves commendation over its stand with the rule of law as opposed to the rule of lobby which the PDP-led government has been doing’ 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
