Members and supporters of the Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party have been told to troop out tomorrow, Saturday February 22, to exercise their civic right and vote in the scheduled local government election by the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission, OSSIEC.
The party also condemned in strong terms, the unfortunate comment attributed to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi, over the scheduled local government election, describing it as another plot by President Tinubu’s led APC administration in Nigeria to destabilise Osun State as a form of vengeance and vendetta against the peace loving people of Osun State, who voted APC out of the State in 2022.
A statement by the media office of the PDP on Friday described election as fundamental right of the citizens in constitutional democracy and cannot be tied to the fairweather whims of a vexed individual like the AGF, Lateef Fagbemi.
Nigerians would recall, Lateef Fagbemi led the legal team of the defeated former governor Gboyega Oyetola in the attendant legal tussle following the woeful loss of the latter in the July 16 2022 governorship election in Osun State, which ended in shame for Fagbemi and his team of rabble rousers.
It is therefore not surprising for the same individual attempting to foist his partisan opinion on the state, obviously taking side with members of his political party, APC, with whom he lost together up to Supreme Court.
The PDP reckon that Mr Fagbemi is not a court of law, and that he has to his record, litany of losses in several cases he has handled as a counsel, one of which was the 2022 Osun governorship election. His opinion therefore, cannot be taken and regarded as flawless, as such opinion in several instances, have been thrown away many times by judges of various courts of competent jurisdiction
“Lateef Fagbemi is not without blemished opinion as a legal practitioner before he was assigned the job of Attorney General. Such blemish tendencies cannot be washed away by virtue of his current position. He is human with vested interests, one of which he just displayed again over the Osun local government issues”
“If anything, Lateef and beneficiaries of his maliciuos opinion should test such sub-judice stance in the court of law after the conduct of local government election in Osun State”
The PDP further reiterated its readiness to participate in the February 22 local government election and consequently urged its members and supporters alike to conduct themselves peacefully, while exersicing their electoral franchise on Saturday.
