The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has slammed a former Peoples Democratic Party’s deputy governorship aspirant in Ogun State, Dr Reuben Abati, over his comments on the withheld local government allocations in the state.
The party accused Abati of needlessly engaging in professional terrorism against the APC in Osun.
A statement by the APC director of media, Kola Olabisi, said Abati’s comments showed that he knew next to nothing about the subject matter.
The statement questioned why Abati didn’t query the refusal of Governor Ademola Adeleke to approach the Supreme Court to appeal the decision of the Court of Appeal that reportedly reinstated the APC local government council chairmen and councillors.
The statement reads in part: “It is quite worrisome that the former deputy governorship aspirant under the PDP with a supposed knowledge of the law of the land could hide under a television tube to frivolously engage in flagrant abuse of privilege by constituting himself into a court of law where he could comment on a raging suit.
“The efforts of Abati on the delayed payment of the Osun State local government councils’ federal allocations expressly revealed that the television presenter knows next to nothing about the subject matter which earned him the instant status of a meddlesome interloper.
“Was it an oversight or lack of knowledge for ‘Justice’ Abati to have failed to reference the immortal Court of Appeal judgement of the 10th of February, 2025 which he was ridiculously countering with the subsequent mere obiter dicta cited by the subsequent Court of Appeal ruling of 13th June, 2025 which could not, in any way, impeach the earlier judgment of the Court of Appeal?
“Why didn’t Abati query the refusal of Governor Ademola Adeleke to approach the Supreme Court to appeal the decision of the Court of Appeal that reinstated the APC local government council chairmen and councillors if they, indeed, have a sufficient ground to so do convincingly?
Is Abati sufficiently informed that the state chapter of the National Union of Local Government Employees(NULGE) has been on a sympathy strike induced by Governor Adeleke for seven months running?”