The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has cautioned the state governor, Ademola Adeleke against disparaging the judiciary with his claim of winning the 2018 governorship election in the state.
According to the opposition party in Osun, “This statement of Senator Adeleke is unnecessary as it amounts to telling the whole world that he doesn’t have confidence in the judiciary which through the Supreme Court of the land saw sufficient proof that he lost the 2018 governorship election to the former Governor, Gboyega Oyetola now the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy.”
The director of Media and Information of the party, Kola Olabisi, said in a statement on Tuesday, that Adeleke, at the slightest opportunity to speak, would state that he won the 2018 governorship election.
“Senator Adeleke should be reminded that a governorship election in Nigeria is a process which begins at the primary level to the election proper to the tribunal to the Court of Appeal and terminates at the Supreme Court.
“It is instructive to drum it into Governor Adeleke that any allusion made by him or any other person that he (Adeleke) won the 2018 governorship election is not only contemptuous but amounts to rebuking the judiciary that it doesn’t know what it is doing,” the statement noted.
It added, “It beats the imagination of any right thinking members of the society that a beneficiary of the same judiciary during the 2022 election could be bold enough to be deriding the same judiciary that pronounced him the winner of the governorship election against Alhaji Oyetola, the APC candidate.
“We, as a party, have since moved on as a committed democrat which has an absolute confidence in the nation’s judiciary and all the tenets of the rules of law. It would be recalled that Adeleke was reported to have told a television outfit few days ago, as usual, that he was rigged out of the 2018 governorship election.
“We want to make it abundantly clear to Governor Adeleke and his co-travellers that his continuous disparaging of the judiciary over his loss of the 2018 governorship election would not confer any special advantage on him in the 2026 election which he should be prepared to lose because of his unenviable scorecard.”
