In the last two days, the Osun APC had bombarded the social media space with their usual propaganda and unprotected lies which factors have always been the bane of their progress and advancement. No doubt, a handy tool in the armoury of the Osun APC is spreading lies and promoting propaganda. When on Monday 13th January, 2025, the news filtered in that the Court of Appeal sitting in Akure dismissed an appeal filed by the APC to challenge the Federal High Court judgement nullifying the YES/NO local government elections purportedly conducted by OSSIEC in 2022, our friends in the APC hit the media waves, fouling the stream of true information, in a deliberate attempt to distort the facts. This is a usual cover up strategy adopted by the APC but which always fails them, yet they always go the way of the legless strategy. Infact many of their media slaves went haywire to the extent of threatening that any judge that gives any judgment against the APC will be dealt with, that such can never happen, and that indeed no such decision was given by the Court of Appeal. They spiced this up by a long press release laced with abuses, bitterness, false accusations and wrong information, wrongly blaming the ruling party in Osun State “for spreading fake information”.
The following day, certified true copies of the proceedings of the Court of Appeal surfaced. On the Court documents, there were three (3) Appellants. The APC was the 3rd Appellant. A Notice of Appeal was filed for all the Appellants by Muhyideen Adeoye, Esq, popularly known as GALADIMA, a regular with the APC who is one of their loyal members and ardent supporters. Our APC friends smartly turned again in their usual media frenzies denying that APC was part of the appeal. They said APC was not a party to the appeal that was dismissed. They deliberately misdirected the attention of the public to the parties in the CTC of the Court proceedings which read: APM & 2 ORS. They said APC was not there. But a clear perusal of the Notice of Appeal shows that the APC was a party not only to the case before the Federal High Court, but also to the appeal that was dismissed. If the appeal had been dismissed for reason of abandonment on the part of the Appellants which included the APC as the third Appellant, the effect was that the decision of the FHC sitting in Osogbo delivered on 30th November, 2022, nullifying the purported local government elections in Osun State, consequentially sacking the purported elected officials who were all of the APC, remains validly subsisting and binding. The order of the Court of Appeal dismissing the appeal on the said decision is a reinforcement of the said decision.
Where then is the hope of the APC in the other appeal which is in respect of another decision of the FHC delivered on 25th November, 2022 which nullified the election and sacked the purported elected Council officials all of the APC as well. The said appeal has been heard, awaiting judgment. The question is what will be the effect of the decision in the said pending appeal when there is another validly subsisting decision of both the Federal High Court and the Court of Appeal invalidating the process of the 2022 local government elections in Osun State, sacking the purported beneficiaries. What hope is the Osun APC banking on! What is left for them in the other appeal that is yet to be determined when there is already in place a validly subsisting decision of the FHC reinforced by the Court of Appeal order of dismissal made on 13th January, 2025, which negatively affected the APC as one of the three Appellants on record.
The laughable media vuvuzela of the APC are postulating that their target is the appeal that is awaiting judgment! What a laughable and baseless idea! Assuming, (and far from it) that the APC would win that appeal, what is the place of the other binding judgment which effectively sacked them as well. The APC have gone haywire, raining curses, abuses on every person who has told them the truth that their hope of coming back to the local council can never be through the invalidated YES/NO election. That one is “offone” to borrow their “Edo slogan” for them there. That hope is lost forever and I dare say it again that for the Osun APC, it is “offone” for life.
On what basis would the Court of Appeal allow their appeal self. On the basis of a 60-day election notice which was against the provision of both 2022 OSSIEC Law and the 2022 Electoral Act. All necessary parties who should be joined in the case were on board. What hope is the APC banking on self! What a grandstanding!
All the above has made me to conclude that the Osun APC are like someone beaten with six big sticks or beaten with a big stick six times, but still claiming that none had any effect on him. Who is feeling the pain?
Adebolu Mutallib,
Osogbo
