The Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Gboyega Oyetola, has accused Governor Ademola Adeleke of deliberately refusing to accept judicial authority over the lingering local government crisis in Osun State.
AFRESH247 reports that Governor Adeleke had accused of weaponising federal institutions against local governments in the state, adding that the All Progressive Congress Chairmen and Councillors are illegally occupying the state secretariat with Police protection on the instructions of Oyetola.
Oyetola in a statement issued by his media adviser, Dr. Bolaji Akinola, noted that the continued agitation by Governor Adeleke was not rooted in facts but represented a conscious disregard for court rulings and the rule of law.
According to him, no serious government sabotages its own legal standing and then seeks scapegoats for the consequences.
“The local government secretariats are open and functioning. Services continue to run, workers are back to their posts, and council administrations are carrying out their statutory responsibilities. The narrative of paralysis exists only in the imagination of a governor, using falsehood to seek public sympathy.
“The continued agitation by Governor Adeleke represents a deliberate refusal to accept judicial authority.
“Adeleke should perish the thought of interfering with local government administration in Osun State. The councils are autonomous, lawful, and operational.
“The police operate under established institutional command structures and cannot be privately controlled by any individual minister. Adeleke should stop misleading the public, stop manufacturing conspiracies, and stop whipping up sentiment to cover manifest ineptitude. Governance is not theatre, and Osun people deserve facts, not fiction”.
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