An Osun State High Court sitting in Ijebu-Jesa has restrained security agencies from arresting a former National Deputy Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr Diran Odeyemi, and one Mr. Adigun Akinpelu.
Odeyemi and Akinpelu had filed a fundamental rights suit before the court, urging the court to restrain the defendants in the suit from arresting them.
The defendants are the Inspector General of Police, Commissioner of Police, Osun State Command, The Director General of State Security of Nigeria, and the Director General of State Service, Osun State.
It would be recalled that Odeyemi accused armed security agents of the defendants of invading his residence in Ibadan on October 26, without prior notice.
Odeyemi said the invasion of his residence and attempt to unlawfully arrest him was part of plans by the All Progressives Congress (APC), to silence leaders of the PDP in Osun State.
In the certified true copy of the suit signed by the principal Registrar of the court, Adebisi Taiwo, the applicants filed an affidavit of urgency on the 20th day of November 2024.
The applicants in the affidavit, sought an order of Interim injunction restraining the respondents, the officers under them, and anyone acting through them from arresting, harassing, detaining the applicants, or invading the applicants’ residences or wherever the applicants may be outside their residences pending the hearing of the application for fundamental rights enforcement already filed in the Court.
The court after listening to the counsel to the applicants, Chief Abdulfatai Abdulsalam, determined the motion exparte in favour of the applicants.
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The court said the counsel has been able to persuade that there is dire urgency to protect the applicants from the imminent danger of arrest, harassment, Intimidation, or/and invasion of their premises and the hampering of their business.
“This Honourable Court hereby makes an order of Interim Injunction: restraining all the Respondents, the officers under them, and anyone acting through them from arresting, harassing, detaining the Applicants’ or invading the Applicants’ residences or wherever the Applicants maybe outside their residences pending the hearing of the Application for Fundamental Right Enforcement already pending before the Court; at least until the Respondents have established prima facie a crime against the Applicants.”
The court adjourned the case till December 12, 2024, for hearing of the fundamental right application.
