The Osun State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dragged the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr Lateef Fagbemi and the Blue Economy Minister, Adegboyega Oyetola before western embassies and global right groups for orchestrating disobedience of court order on Osun local government leadership.
In a statement signed by PDP state chairman, Hon. Sunday Bisi stated that the party accused the duo of plotting and executing the current local government crisis in Osun state through deliberate disobedience of a Court of Appeal judgment recognizing PDP elected chairmen and councillors and through callous withholding of local government allocations for the past five months.
“Rather than ensuring compliance with the court order, the party pointed accusing fingers at Mr Oyetola for deploying his family relationship with President Bola Tinubu to illegally withhold Osun local governments allocations without any valid legal basis.
“Citing various legal details leading to the last Court of Appeal judgement which upheld the legality of the PDP chairmen and councillors, the PDP reported to the global community that the Attorney-General and the Marine and Blue Economy Minister are insisting on paying Osun local government fund to court sacked APC chairmen.
“We found this development worrisome and an open threat to democratic governance. We call on the Western embassies and global rights community to sanction the two federal officials for actions and conduct capable of truncating democracy in Osum state,” Hon. Bisi noted.
“We seek visa ban and other sundry punitive actions to force these federal officials to comply with the rule of law. This is a democracy and no individual should be allowed to breach the constitution and due process as Mr Oyetola and the AGF are doing in Osun state.
“We seek interventions in terms of investigations, compilation and dissemination of reports on democratic threats in Osun state and its implications for the state and national elections of 2026 and 2027;
“We request for investigations of all sources of threats to democracy using Osun as a point of reference including the anti-democratic activities of the Nigerian Minister of Marine ans Blue Economy, Mr Gboyega Oyetola, who is a cousin to Mr President.
“We crave that the diplomatic community and right groups adopt the Osun 2026 gubernatorial elections as a pre-2027 test case by highlighting risks and opportunities as the elections draw nearer”, the party was quoted as saying.
The PDP vowed to persist in pushing its protests from the Transparency International, International Crisis Group, Amnesty International to Western Embassies and the European Union until legitimately elected council leadership in Osun are allowed to function through immediate release of Osun local government allocations
