A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun, Hon. Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to intervene in the complicated local government crisis in Osun State.
According to him, the call became necessary to prevent those planning to cause trouble over the fresh ruling by the Court of Appeal, Akure division, on the state’s local government election conducted in 2022.
Oyintiloye, a member of the defunct APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) who made the plea while speaking with newsmen on Sunday in Osogbo, said that the court’s ruling on Friday had started generating tension across the state.
According to him, while the Court of Appeal in its wisdom struck out a request by APC to relist its appeal against the 2022 Federal High Court that nullified the local government elections, the court did not nullify the judgment delivered on February 10, 2025, which reinstated the party’s chairmen and councillors.
Oyintiloye, a former lawmaker, said that if not quickly checked, the misinterpretation of the ruling by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the state government may result in a crisis across the state’s 30 local government areas.
He said that the interpretation of the state government’s ruling that they now have control of the local government areas and the planned invasion of the secretariats on Monday will result in a crisis.
The APC chieftain said that the crisis is evident because the elected APC chairmen and councillors would resist any unlawful invasion of the secretariat, which they are currently occupying.
Oyintiloye said that the only way to avert the crisis is for Tinubu to intervene by ordering the deployment of more security agencies to the state.
He said that the loss of lives during a similar crisis on February 17 was still fresh in the minds of the residents, adding that such a thing should not be allowed to happen again.
