By Tunde Olamilekan
The Executive Director, World Institute for Peace, Lamina Kamiludeen, on Friday, asked the Osun State Government to stay away from local government matters and focus on its responsibilities.
Kamiludeen said the Court of Appeal sitting in Akure had declared the dissolution of the elected APC council officials unlawful and unconstitutional and ordered their immediate reinstatement.
He stated this while addressing the press in Osogbo on the ongoing local government crisis in the state.
The activist noted that the Appeal Court affirmed that no state government has the constitutional authority to remove elected local government officials, noting that the said judgment remained valid, subsisting, and binding.
Kamiludeen added that the state government must obey the judgment of the Supreme Court.
According to him, the court had ruled that: “Neither the state government nor its agencies has supervisory or financial authority over local governments.”
He maintained that “moving from one lower court to another in an attempt to frustrate council operations is an abuse of judicial process and a deliberate attack on grassroots governance.”
Kamiludeen urged the state government to embrace constitutionalism, respect the rule of law, and focus on governance rather than litigation and propaganda.
“The peace, development, and welfare of the grassroots population must never be sacrificed on the altar of politics,” he stated.
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