Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke has met with traditional rulers to continue his consultations with key stakeholders on the crisis, rocking local government administration for briefing.
He appealed to the monarchs to further educate their subjects on the facts of the controversies, adding that they should not allow fake news to be weaponised to destroy Osun State.
He described the report that the Court of Appeal, Akure Division, reinstated the sacked chairmen and councillors elected under the platform of the All Progressives Congress in 2022 as fake news.
They argued that the APC officials, who claimed to have occupied all local government secretariats across Osun, remained sacked by the order of the Federal High Court in the state and vowed to use the rule of law to get those he described as illegal occupants out of the council offices.
Clarifying that he was not responsible for the sacking of the APC officials, the governor explained that a Federal High Court removed them from office in October 2022 while his predecessor, Adegboyega Oyetola, was still in office.
Earlier in his remarks, the Chairman of the Osun Traditional Council, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, expressed displeasure at the deadly violence that the local council crisis caused and called for peace from all parties.
“We are also not happy with the local government crisis in the state; we abhor violence, and Osun is a peaceful state, a status that must be maintained irrespective of the issues in contention,” Ooni said.
