The Chairman of Osun State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, Sunday Bisi has instituted a suit at the Federal High Court, Osogbo to enforce his fundamental rights and restrain the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun and his agents from carrying out what he described as “planned unlawful arrest.”
Bisi described the planned arrest as a flagrant and brazen attempt to encroach upon his fundamental rights to personal liberty and freedom of movement and as an abuse of the coercive powers which the nation entrusts with the IGP.
According to the suit, the plan by the IGP to arrest the Osun PDP boss is designed to molest and punish him for opposing the “IGP’s unethical partisan engagements against the Peoples Democratic Party in the ongoing political tussle in the State and for encouraging his party and members to participate in the just concluded LG election in Osun State, contrary to the purported security advice given by the IGP to stop the eventually peaceful election.”
In the suit marked: FHC/OS/C8/42/2025, Bisi is the plaintiff while Egbetokun and Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone IX Command Osun State and the Osun State Commissioner of Police are defendants.
Bisi urged the court to determine “WHETHER the threat of arrest of the plaintiff as Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, Osun State Chapter, and the plan to arrest him by the defendants and their agents when the plaintiff has not committed any crime known to the law, do not constitute an infringement of the plaintiff’s fundamental rights to personal liberty, freedom of movement, expression and association.”
Recall that there were two separate judgments of the Court of Appeal and Osun State High Court recognising the vacancies in Osun Local Government Councils with the latter ordering the OSSIEC to conduct election to fill the vacancies.
Apparently not satisfied with the court judgments, the IGP rolled out some security advice against the conduct of the election, advising that the exercise should be put on hold.
However, the PDP chairman claimed that there is an underground plot by Egbetokun and his agents to arrest him for instructing members of the party to participate in the election.
Bisi prayed the court to restrain Egbetokun and his agents from effecting the alleged unlawful arrest plan.
