Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has raised an alarm over an alleged plot to cause unrest in the state.
According to Adeleke, the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Gboyega Oyetola, is spearheading the plot in collaboration with the Osun State Commissioner of Police, the Osun State Director of DSS, and the State Commandant of the Civil Defense Corps.
The governor alleged that Oyetola is issuing illegal directives to security operatives to enforce a non-existent court judgment on the state’s local governments. Adeleke emphasized that the court judgment in question does not have any consequential orders.
Adeleke claimed that Oyetola’s actions are a blatant abuse of power and could lead to violence in the state. He called on President Bola Tinubu to intervene and insist on the rule of law.
The governor also warned that the public should hold Oyetola and the Osun state security chiefs responsible for any breakdown of law and order in the state. Adeleke emphasized that his administration will not tolerate any unconstitutional takeover of local government administration.
According to him, “I 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. He is issuing illegal directives to security operatives to enforce illegality simply because he is the nephew of Mr. President. 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.
“The bone of contention is 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.
“Let me make it clear that the said Council Chairmen were sacked before I was sworn in as governor of Osun State, contrary to the lies being peddled, that the Chairmen and councilors were sacked by my Executive Order.
“For emphasis, l want to state that I had nothing to do with the sacking of the chairmen and councilors produced by the Osun 2022 local government polls.The Chairmen and Councilors were sacked by two different judgments of the Federal High Court Osogbo.
“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.
Reacting to the allegation, the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, has dismissed the allegation that he was plotting to destabilize Osun State, saying his track records of public service in the last 15 years does not support the claim by Governor Ademola Adeleke.
Oyetola in a statement made available to newsmen by the Media Office of the minister, on Sunday, stressed that he’ll never be party to any breakdown of law and order.
The statement reads in part, “for the four years he governed Osun, he gave a good account of himself as a man of peace, a respecter of rule of law and one not given to violence. If he is given to violence, he would certainly have fought back violently in 2022 when was brazenly rigged out.
“Again, in 2022, when Governor Ademola Adeleke employed extra-judicial means to sack democratically elected council officials, Oyetola as the leader of party, never preached violence. Instead, he led the party members to court.
“Thankfully, his party won at the Appeal last week. And as peace-loving leader, he appealed to security agencies to enforce the judgement of the court. How can such a man be accused of a destabilisation plot. I think anyone accusing Oyetola of violence needs to have his/her head properly examined.
“The minister, is further seizing this opportunity to appeal to his successor to respect the Appeal Court judgement, rather than resort to cheap blackmail, which has no place in law.”
