Osun APC alerts Police over alleged invasion of local government councils
The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised alarm, alerting the State Commissioner of Police and other statutory security services to an alleged plot by elements linked to Governor Ademola Adeleke and the Accord Party to forcefully invade local government council secretariats across the state.
The opposition party warned that the planned actions, reportedly scheduled to commence on Friday, June 19, 2026, could plunge the state into an avoidable and violent political crisis.
In a press statement issued by the Osun State APC Director of Media and Information, Mogaji Kola Olabisi, the party claimed that Governor Adeleke allegedly issued an illegal directive during a recent statewide media interview, ordering standard sit-at-home local government chairmen and councillors of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) extraction to invade the local councils.
The APC further noted that a similar threat was re-echoed by the state chairman of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Christopher Arapasopo, whom the APC accused of stepping outside his labor mandate to act as a campaign manager for Governor Adeleke’s upcoming re-election bid.
The tension stems from a court judgement which recently declined the elongation of the APC local government chairmen.
However, the serving APC local government council chairmen have filed a formal notice of appeal and an application for a stay of execution at the appellate court.
The APC stressed that under established Nigerian jurisprudence, once a notice of appeal and a stay of execution have been actively filed, all parties are constitutionally mandated to halt any enforcement of the contested judgment until the case runs its full cycle.
The APC statement accused the opposition of bypassing this legal standpoint stating, “Contrary to the legal standpoint, immediately a letter written by their lawyer to the management of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) on the local government issue was made to go viral, both high and low members of the political group have started threatening fire and brimstone to storm the local government council areas across the state.”
The APC cautioned that the Governor Adeleke’s political shuffling must not act as a cover to repeatedly bypass legal frameworks, warning that the state’s security apparatus must hold Governor Adeleke and the NLC Chairman directly responsible for any breakdown of law and order.
To emphasize the severity of the threat, the APC recalled past political violence in the state.
It referenced the murder of Honourable Remi Abass, the Court of Appeal-reinstated Chairman of Irewole Local Government Council, who was allegedly killed by political thugs during previous council disputes, suspects who are currently facing trial in a federal court in Abuja.
The opposition party also accused Governor Adeleke of routinely weaponizing industrial actions, citing a past one-year worker boycott at the local government level designed to frustrate sitting executives, alongside two separate judicial worker strikes aimed at disrupting the office of the State Chief Judge.
The Osun APC strongly enjoined the state police command and all sister statutory security agencies to place their operatives on red alert.
They also demanded the immediate arrest of disgruntled elements attempting to breach public peace under the guise of playing dirty politics, urging the authorities to protect local council secretariats from illegal takeovers.