The PDP also condemned the violence and killing of some youths by suspected APC thugs.
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has issued a warning to sacked Osun State local government chairmen and councillors.
Recall that the sacked chairmen and councillors were elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to perish the thought of forcing themselves back into office.
According to PDP, APC should accept the reality and end its resort to self-help, misrepresentations, vituperations, violence and killing with the aim to trigger crisis and destabilise the state.
It stressed that the fate of the ousted local government chairmen and councilors were sealed by the judgment of the Court to Appeal which nullified the unconstitutional attempt by the then Governor Gboyega Oyetola to illegally plant them as officers in the guise of an election.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, in a statement issued on Monday, also condemned the violence and killing of some youths by suspected APC thugs and called on the Inspector General of Police to hold APC leaders in Osun responsible and bring them to book for the crime.
Ologunagba urged Osun APC to stop playing to the gallery by trying to bring the office of the President into disrepute by hopelessly dropping his name at public spaces in a desperate attempt to garner undeserved sympathy.
“Having been roundly rejected by the people of Osun State in the Saturday, July 16, 2022, governorship election, the then Governor Oyetola and the APC ought to have known that attempting to side-step the laws and manipulate the process to illegally foist APC members and apologists as local government chairmen and counsillors was an exercise in futility which was bound to fail ultimately.
“The APC is the architect of its misfortune. It should have known that disregarding and refusing to comply with the provisions of the Constitution and the Osun State Local Government Election Laws with respect to the requirement on notices, processes and procedures of conducting local government election is destined to be fatal and irreparable.
“The APC should note that our nation operates a federal system of government with clearly entrenched devolution of powers among the federating units as well as the various sub-national tiers of government,” parts of the statement said.
