Governor Adeleke directs senior career heads to take control of Local Government Council Areas

The Osun state Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke has directed the most senior career heads across all the Local Government Council Areas, the Area Office, Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs and Area Council Development Areas in Osun State to take charge of the affairs of their respective Councils with immediate effect. 

This is contain in a statement by the Spokesperson to the Governor, Mallam Olawale Rasheed.

The directive from the Governor is in compliance with the judgement of the Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo that sacked the elected Local Government Chairmen and Councilors in October 15 Local Government election in Osun State.

It will be recall that the Osun Independent Electoral Commission, OSIEC, conducted the Local Government election on October 15, 2022 with only one political party, All Progressive Congress, APC, on the ballot paper.

The election was conducted after the opposition party, People's Democratic Party, PDP, had approach court to stop the conduct of election.

PDP had argued that, the electoral umpire had no right to conduct the election within a month and a month to the expiration of former Governor Adegboyega Oyetola.

Funmi Adekoya