STOP DISPARAGING THE JUDICIARY OVER 2018 ELECTIONS- Osun APC Warns Adeleke

PRESS STATEMENT.                                                (17TH DECEMBER, 2024).

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has cautioned the state Governor Ademola Adeleke to stop disparaging the judiciary with his mantra of repeating ceaselessly that he won the 2018 governorship election in the state.

This statement of Senator Adeleke is unnecessary as it amounts to telling the whole world that he doesn't have confidence in the judiciary which through the Supreme Court of the land saw sufficient proof that he lost the 2018 governorship election to the former Governor Gboyega Oyetola now the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy.

It has been observed that at the slightest opportunity to speak, the Peoples Democratic Party PDP-produced governor would state that he won the 2018 governorship election.

Senator Adeleke should be reminded that a governorship election in Nigeria is a process which begins at the primary level to the election proper to the tribunal to the Court of Appeal and terminates at the Supreme Court.

It is instructive to drum it into Governor Adeleke that any allusion made by him or any other person that he(Adeleke) won the 2018 governorship election is not only contemptuous but amounts to rebuking the judiciary that it doesn't know what it's doing.

It beats the imagination of any right thinking member(s) of the society that a beneficiary of the same judiciary during the 2022 election could be bold enough to be deriding the same judiciary that pronounced him the winner of the governorship election against Alhaji Oyetola, the APC candidate.

We,as a party, have since moved on as a demonstrated democrat which has an absolute confidence in the nation's judiciary and all the tenets of the rules of law.

It would be recalled that Adeleke was reported to have told a television outfit few days ago, as usual, that he was rigged out of the 2018 governorship election.

We want to make it abundantly clear to Governor Adeleke and his co-travellers that his continuous disparaging of the judiciary over his loss of the 2018 governorship election would not confer any special advantage on him in the 2026 election which he should be prepared to lose because of his unenviable scorecard.

It is frothy of Governor Adeleke to always think that an election is free, fair and credible and the judiciary is working only when he is declared the winner of an election without him taking into cognisance the fact that going into any election can be likened to going to a war where one can either come back with the booty of war or ends up as a booty of the enemy camp.

We want to warn Governor Adeleke that he should not result to his stock in trade of blame game of the judiciary when he loses the 2026 governorship election as he has been laying the foundation for his imminent failure at the polls right from the day one of his administration over two years ago to date with verifiable administrative missteps and policy somersaults.

Governance in this modern day is beyond what the minimalist administration of Governor Adeleke has been flaunting as achievements which are pungently devoid of an ability of the chief driver of the state to think outside the box other than dancing any time two objects are struck against each other to the consternation of the right-thinking members of the society.

e-SIGNED:

Chief KOLA OLABISI,                                              Director of Media and Information,                   Osun State APC.