Osun LG polls: APC threatens Gov-elect, Adeleke with impeachment

By Adeleye Kunle

The Osun State Governor-elect, Senator Ademola Adeleke has been warned any move to dissolve the elected local government officials in the State would attract impeachment procedures when he becomes governor.

Track News recalls that during the Saturday, October 15, 2022, local government election organised by the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC), only the All Progressives Congress (APC) fielded candidates.

This warning was issued by Adegoke Ogunsola, the Osun APC Legal Adviser while fielding questions from journalists on the possible dissolution of the elected chairmen and councillors under the ruling party by the governor-elect.

The Osun PDP, which had described the conduct of the poll as an illegality, had in a statement signed by Adekunle Akindele, its caretaker chairman, warned that that all the elected local government officials would be dissolved on assumption of office by Ademola Adeleke as governor on November 27, 2022.

But Ogunsola, who also doubled as the chairmanship candidate for Ifelodun Local Government, noted that no governor in Nigeria has the power to dissolve elected local government officials.

Ogunsola maintained that local government is a level of government, not an appendage of the State government.

“The Governor of a State does not have the power to dissolve any elected member unless the court gives that particular nod that for certain reasons the governor could go ahead to dissolve or in the alternative, the House of Assembly is an arm of government that could also give a resolution that may lead to the dissolution of local government.