Osun APC accuses Reuben Abati of professional terrorism over LG allocations

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Osun State, has accused Dr. Reuben Abati of professional terrorism against the party over delayed payment Osun local governments allocations.

The party, in a statement on Monday signed by its Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi, alledged the efforts of Abati on Osun local government councils’ federal allocations expressly revealed that the television presenter knows next to nothing about the subject matter which earned him the instant status of a meddlesome interloper.

According to the statement, “All the efforts by the compromised television figure to hide under his finger to portray himself as an unbiased presenter felt flat as the hatchet job he was suspiciously enlisted for grossly exposed him as a political actor with a vested interest on the issue at stake.

“It is quite worrisome that the former deputy governorship aspirant under the PDP with a supposed knowledge of the law of the land could hide under a television tube to frivolously engage in flagrant abuse of privilege by constituting himself into a court of law where he could comment on a raging suit.

“The efforts of Abati on the delayed payment of the Osun State local government councils’ federal allocations expressly revealed that the television presenter knows next to nothing about the subject matter which earned him the instant status of a meddlesome interloper.

“The fulcrum of the schism over the tussle in the payment of the federal allocations to the Osun State local government councils is the Court of Appeal judgement of the 10th of February, 2025 which expressly reinstated the APC council chairmen and councillors with all the reliefs sought allowed by the Court.

“Was it an oversight or lack of knowledge for ‘Justice’ Abati to have failed to reference the immortal Court of Appeal judgement of the 10th of February, 2025 which he was ridiculously countering with the subsequent mere obiter dicta cited by the subsequent Court of Appeal ruling of 13th June, 2025 which could not, in any way, impeach the earlier judgment of the Court of Appeal?

“Why didn’t Abati query the refusal of Governor Ademola Adeleke to approach the Supreme Court to appeal the decision of the Court of Appeal that reinstated the APC local government council chairmen and councillors if they, indeed, have a sufficient ground to so do convincingly?
Is Abati sufficiently informed that the state chapter of the National Union of Local Government Employees(NULGE) has been on a sympathy strike induced by Governor Adeleke for seven months running?

“Does it not sound strange and ludicrous for a governor to be organising, promoting and financing a protest and strike against his own administration as it is being witnessed with utmost disdain in Osun State under the apparently wobbled, confused and directionless government of the day in the state?

“Should the people of the state encompassing the young, the oldies, the chiefs, the Kabiyesis and all and sundry be made to continue suffering because the governor has formed an unholy alliance with the NULGE, directing them to stay away from the local government council secretariats across the state with a view to preventing the APC council chairmen and councillors from enjoying the benefit of the judgement of the 10th February, 2025 of the Court of Appeal, Akure Division?

“We make bold to observe and conclude that the Abati comment on the Arise Television concerning the debacle on the Osun State Local government councils’ allocations was far from being charitable and it is hereby condemned on the basis of its biased posture.

“If we may ask, why should Abati hit Barrister Kunle Rasheed Adegoke SAN (K-RAD) below the belt by not allowing him an opportunity to defend himself by the way of the spewing of the charade and gibberish apparently with a motive to tilt a legal opinion in favour of Governor Adeleke for a suspected reason which could not have been objective?

“Abati and his cohorts should desist from playing the role of a policeman for the people of this country as the former Ogun State PDP deputy governorship aspirant’s known political leaning has not only soiled him but exposed him for what he is, where he’s going and coming back from which is the more reason why he should disqualify himself from the suspected hatchet job.”