In a bold swipe at the opposition, the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has mocked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over what it described as the latter’s frustration with recent Appeal Court judgments reinstating APC local government council chairmen and councillors across the state.
This comes after the Court of Appeal delivered a landmark verdict on February 10, 2025, reinstating the APC chairmen and councillors — a ruling which was further reinforced on June 13, 2025, when the same court dismissed PDP’s attempt to relist an abandoned appeal.
In a strongly-worded statement released on Thursday and signed by its Director of Media and Information, Mogaji Kola Olabisi, the Osun APC accused PDP leaders of misrepresenting the latest court decision to mislead the public and cover up their political embarrassment.
“It is strange that aggrieved PDP members and their supporters have now resorted to needless abuses and verbal attacks on federal institutions, ministers, the CBN, and APC chieftains in the state,” Olabisi stated. “They cannot cope with the fact that the drums they rolled out to celebrate a misrepresented ruling have amounted to nothing.”
A Political Blunder
The APC maintained that PDP leaders, including some members of the National and State Assemblies, along with party executives, had rushed to congratulate Governor Ademola Adeleke and the so-called “sit-at-home, no-election impersonators” following the June 13 ruling — without understanding its legal implication.
“Some party figures even peddled false claims that the ruling had invalidated the February 10 judgment,” Olabisi said, citing an example of a senior family figure from Ede allegedly boasting of the ruling at a chieftaincy event in Igbajo.
“Their fear now is simple: they know this judgment will expose how the state government has been diverting local government allocations for self-serving infrastructure projects and bloated political appointments, including Special Advisers, Facebook Personal Assistants, and social media attack dogs.”
“Governor Adeleke Misled”
Olabisi went further to claim that Governor Adeleke was misled by members of his own party.
“It is pathetic that no one within the PDP explained to the elated Governor that the June 13 Court of Appeal ruling was a procedural one — it does not affect or reverse the February 10 ruling. Unfortunately, the governor danced to a ruling that was glaringly not beneficial to his party,” the statement read.
According to the APC spokesman, PDP’s failed attempt to relist the appeal (CA/AK/270/2022) only served to reaffirm the binding nature of the February 10 judgment which reinstated the APC chairmen and councillors.
He also revealed that some “sit-at-home” chairmen, believing the misleading interpretation of the June 13 ruling, went on a borrowing spree to fund premature celebrations — and are now being pursued by creditors.
“Let The Truth Sink In”
“The PDP needs to come to terms with the fact that the February 10, 2025 judgment remains valid, binding, and unchallenged. The reinstated APC chairmen remain in office — unless a higher court explicitly overturns that decision. No such appeal or ruling exists,” Olabisi warned.
He described the PDP’s deliberate misrepresentation of the ruling as “an express road to political perdition,” urging party leaders to desist from further confusion.
Olabisi also praised the reinstated APC council officials, saying they have already begun delivering good governance at the grassroots — after what he called “a period of inertia and inactivity” under Adeleke’s government.
“Law Is No Respecter of Persons”
The statement concluded with a reminder that the Court of Appeal ruling on June 13 was merely on a motion to relist an abandoned appeal dismissed on January 13, 2025 (Appeal No. CA/AK/226M/2022), a case entirely different from the one that restored APC control of the local councils.
“The PDP must understand: the law is not a respecter of persons. The political reality in Osun State has changed — and no amount of media spin or street dancing can alter that.”
