LG funds: Osun APC, PDP trade blame after Supreme Court verdict

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The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress on Saturday said hoodlums linked to the Peoples Democratic Party attacked five of its members in Boluwaduro Local Government Area of the state.

The party alleged that the attack occurred after the Supreme Court delivered judgment in the suit filed by the Attorney General of the state, Oluwole Jimi-Bada against the Federal Government on the withheld allocation due to local government areas in the state.

The Osun APC also accused the State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, and the leaders of the PDP of deliberately twisting the judgment to instigate violence.

But while reacting to the allegations, the PDP said APC had attacked its member in Boluwaduro and used the police to effect the arrest of several others after committing the crime.

The party through its Director of Media and Publicity, Oladele Bamiji, also said it was APC leaders that refused to read the Supreme Court with bias, saying the PDP was vindicated by the verdict of the court.

The Supreme Court had thrown out the suit filed by Jimi-Bada against the Attorney General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi, in its judgement on Friday.

Six Justices agreed with the lead judgement, but a dissenting verdict was delivered by one of the seven-member panel.

Both APC and the PDP claimed victory over the verdict of the court, leading to confusion among the people on who was actually vindicated in judgement.

The Osun APC, in a statement signed by its chairman, Tajudeen Lawal, obtained in Osogbo on Saturday, alerted the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun and the Nigerian Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, to alleged plans of the state government to plunge the state into crisis through the deliberate twisting of the judgement.

It recalled that Adeleke, the Osun PDP state chairman, Mr. Sunday Bisi, among others, “have been taking turns to misinform the public by twisting the Supreme Court judgment which struck out the case instituted by the State Attorney-General against the Attorney-General of the Federation.

“It is important to inform the Inspector-General of Police and the NSA that the leadership of the PDP working in cahoot with the state government have perfected coordinated plans to be attacking the members of our party across the local government council areas in the state.

“In order to test the water of their violent attacks, no fewer than five members of our party at Otan-Aiyegbaju in Boluwaduro Local Government Council Area of the state were attacked and grievously wounded by the PDP thugs shortly after the delivery of the Supreme Court judgement that struck out the Osun State Attorney-General’s case for being incompetent and lack of jurisdiction,” it said.

Reacting further to the allegations of violence by the APC against his party, Bamiji said a member of the PDP was attacked by hoodlums working for the APC.

“In recent time, you will recall Boluwaduro has been a hot bed of the APC violence. As a matter of fact, the governor had to declare curfew in Igbajo. There has been attitude of violence from the APC remnants in that local government. They attacked one of our party members Olugbenga Lawrence, who is critically ill in an hospital as we speak and many others like that.

“The matter was reported to the police, but to our dismay, our members are the ones police arrested. It was a case of the aggressors trying to hide their heads. I want to believe police will do the right thing.

“For us, we have nothing to do with violence. The governor and our party have been preaching peace. We are the party in government and we wont want APC to make the state ungovernable,” he added.

On the allegations that the party and its leaders were deliberately twisting the judgment to cause chaos, Bamiji insisted that the verdict of the court affirmed the legitimacy of the local government election conducted in February, 2025.

He said, “For the court judgment, maybe the APC leaders are reading the judgement upside down or from the wrong side of their brain because the Supreme Court was clear enough to tow the line of Appeal Court, asking stakeholders to respect those, who are democratically elected and those democratically elected are those elected on the platform of our party.

“The latest judgment concerning the election was delivered by the Appeal Court in Akure on June 13, 2025, where it was categorically stated that the election of February, 2025 was duly conducted and valid. There is no other judgement on that election as we speak beside the one I just mentioned.”

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