The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dragged the Attorney General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi, and the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, before Western embassies and global rights groups for alleged disobedience of a court order on the Osun local government leadership tussle
According to the PDP, the duo plotted and executed the current local government crisis in Osun state through deliberate disobedience of a Court of Appeal judgment which reportedly recognized the chairmen and councillors elected under the party.
The party accused the Attorney General and the Minister of deliberately withholding local government allocations for the past five months.
A statement by the chairman of the PDP in Osun State, Mr. Sunday Bisi, alleged that rather than ensuring compliance with the court order, Oyetola is allegedly deploying a relationship with President Bola Tinubu to illegally withhold Osun local governments’ allocations without any valid legal basis.
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He 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, the statement said.
According to Sunday Bisi “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,” the statement added.
“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 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 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 and Blue Economy, 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.
(Editor:Paul Akhagbemhe)
