COURT ORDER FOR OSUN LG POLL ‘LAUGHABLE’ – EX-COMMISSIONER
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A former Commissioner for Works and Transportation and a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, Remi Omowaiye, has faulted an Ilesa High Court order for the conduct of election for chairmanship and councillorship positions in the 30 local government areas of the state.
He insisted that an Appeal Court judgement affirmed the position of local government officials elected under the previous APC government in the state, making a fresh election irrelevant.
“Well, it’s quite unfortunate that the order is coming from a court in my town, this is a judicial rascality,” Omowaiye said on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday.
“There is a clear court judgement affirming the elected local government officials, there is no vacancy.
“So, you cannot have an election, and it is also laughable that a court of a lower jurisdiction is giving an interlocutory injunction against a judgement of the court of higher coordinate.”
On Friday, The Court ordered the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission, (OSSIEC), to conduct elections for the vacant positions of chairmen and councillors in the 30 local government areas of the South-West state.
Before its order, the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice Lateef Fagbemi had called for the halting of the exercise.
Fagbemi hinged his advice on a court verdict that restored local government officials in the state who were previously sacked.
Osun State has been embroiled in a crisis over plans to conduct local government elections, leading to the loss of lives.
Police confirmed the killing of six people on Monday in the crisis triggered by a contentious Court of Appeal ruling allegedly reinstating All Progressives Congress (APC)-elected local government chairmen and councillors.
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