By Blessing Chinagorom
The Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke has called out the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Mr Gboyega Oyetola for allegedly plotting to create chaos and anarchy in Osun state.
Adeleke who made this known at a Press Conference on Sunday, alerted the Media to exposing the fascist anti-democratic agenda designed to enforce non-existing court judgment on the State local governments.
According to him, “This evil plot is being spearheaded by the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Mr Gboyega Oyetola in active collaboration with Osun state Commissioner of Police, State Director of DSS and the State Commandant of the Civil Defense Corps”. 
The Governor affirmed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu being true democrat, a lover of rule of law, and a believer in the sanctity of the judicial process will never authorise a dictatorial violation of the constitution irrespective of who is involved.
He pressed further that the President will never support any action that is capable of generating bloodbath and bloodshed. “I, however, regret to inform Mr. President and the public that Mr Gboyega Oyetola has concluded an arrangement to cause mayhem in Osun state starting from Monday”.
Adeleke claimed that the Minister is issuing illegal directives to security operatives to enforce illegality simply because he is the President nephew.
“I chose to alert the nation before my people are killed or maimed by a minister dropping the name of Mr. President in connivance with the Osun state security operatives obeying unlawful orders”.
Adeleke alleged that the Minister, Oyetola has the brazen effrontery to return to office Council Chairmen sacked by a subsisting court Judgment using a different court decision, which has no consequential order.
He made it clear that the said Council Chairmen were sacked before he was sworn in as governor of Osun State, contrary to the lies being peddled, that the Chairmen and councilors were sacked by his Executive Order.
The Governor stated that he had nothing to do with the sacking of the chairmen and councilors produced by the Osun 2022 local government polls, saying the Chairmen and Councilors were sacked by two different judgments of the Federal High Court Osogbo.
Adeleke said, “The script Mr Oyetola is playing is about the most reprehensible abuse of power in this fourth republic capable of untold and unforeseen consequences on the polity.
*The general public is aware that there were two different Federal High Court judgments on the local govt election of 2022. The first judgment was on the suit filed by People Democratic Party (PDP) which sacked the product of the 2022 polls. 
“The second judgment was on the suit filed by the Action People Party (APP), which also sacked the Chairmen and Councillors produced by the said 2022 Osun Local Government polls.
“The APC appeal against the judgment obtained by the PDP was partially successful, and the said judgment was struck out based on the timing of filing, having been filed before the notice of election was published.
“It needs to be emphasized that the judgment contains no consequential orders. The APC in its amended notice of Appeal, asked the Court of Appeal to reinstate sacked chairmen, councilors, but the Court of Appeal in its wisdom said it has become an academic exercise.
“The request for the reinstatement of the Chairmen and Councilors wasn’t granted. However, the Appeal by the APC against the APP judgment did not succeed at the Court of Appeal, which makes the judgment still subsisting and alive.
“The Court of Appeal dismissed the APC appeal against the judgment obtained by the APP. The only legal recourse open to the APC is to appeal the APP judgment and the subsequent rulings of the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court. “The Certified True Copies of both judgements had earlier been forwarded to the Osun state Commissioner of Police, the State Director of DSS and the state Commandant of Civil Defense by the Osun state Attorney General for their information and records.
The Certified True Copies of both judgments are in the public domain. The judgment of the Court of Appeal on the PDP case wasn’t ambiguous whatsoever. It simply struck out the PDP suit and did not in any of its paragraphs order the reinstatement of the sacked council chairmen and Councilors.
“It is very clear that no consequential order was made because the APP case is still subsisting. As I stated earlier, the Court of Appeal said that the request for the reinstatement of the Chairmen and Councilors has become an academic exercise”, the Governor explained.
He called on legal luminaries and the Nigerian Bar Association to fact check his claims by reading and interpreting the judgments, saying that even a layman can comprehend the meaning except those with an agenda to destroy the peace and progress of Osun state.
“In a democratic society governed by the rule of law, we all must submit to the law. If we are dissatisfied with outcome of a court process, we can appeal to the next court to end at the Supreme Court. “If you are not sure of the meaning and intent of a court judgment, the system expects you to apply for interpretation again through the court system. It is illegal, unconstitutional, anti-democratic to take the law into your own hands.
“For a serving minister, the person of Mr Gboyega Oyetola to lead the charge to violate the constitution and foment violence over a judicial process is not only shameful but is sadism and treason taken too far.
“We have it on good authority that Mr Gboyega Oyetola has instructed the Osun state Commissioner of Police, the state Director of the DSS and the Commandant of civil defence corps to mobilise security operatives from within Osun to effect the non existent judgement by forcefully taking over the local governments on Monday. Mr Oyetola and the police boss have been holding a series of meetings on how to effect the illegal operations”, he claimed.
The Governor affirmed that Mr Gboyega Oyetola has no constitutional authority to issue directives to the security agencies. “The fact that Mr Oyetola is nephew of Mr. President does not confer any such authority on him.
“We see this as a gross betrayal of trust reposed in Osun state security officers by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I want to state that the current nefarious activities of Mr Oyetola and bosses of Osun security agencies constitute grave incitement.
“These need to stop because we’re neither interested in resorting to self- help nor in support of violence to resolve political matters. As much as we’re law -abiding people, we are fierce protectors of our rights, at night and by the day. “I want to place on notice the Nigerian Public, and our friends in the diplomatic community and the lovers of democracy and rule of law that our people will not accept any attempt to impose illegality and anarchy on us.
“We will not allow any takeover of the local government except through a judicial pronouncement or a democratic process. We vehemently reject any ploy to deploy a non-existing court order to achieve local political power.
He appealed to the President to insist on the rule of law by instructing Inspector General of Police, the Director General of DSS, the Commandant General of Civil Defense Corps not to obey an illegal order from his nephew, Oyetola.
The Osun State security chiefs should also be called to order. I also call on Mr President, to instruct National Security Adviser, and the Attorney General of the Federation, to personally verify the fact.
“That the Court of Appeal judgement did not reinstate the sacked local govt chairmen and councilors and the fact that, there is a subsisting judgement of Court that sacked the Chairmen and Councillors produced by the 2022 local government polls.
“The Nigerian public should hold Mr Gboyega Oyetola and the Osun state security chiefs responsible for any breakdown of law and order in the state tomorrow, Monday, and beyond.
“It is unfortunate that the Osun state security chiefs are taking instructions from Mr Gboyega Oyetola just because he is the nephew of Mr. President. As much as we will do our best to maintain peace, we call on men and women of goodwill to intervene before it is too late”, the Governor said.
