The Concerned Muslims Stakeholders and League of Alfas in Osun State on Tuesday, blamed Governor Ademola Adeleke for the crisis rocking local government administration in the state.
The group, while addressing journalists on Tuesday at the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Press Centre, Osogbo, described as needless, the involvement of pressure groups, royal fathers, and religious leaders in the ongoing local government tussle.
The group president, Sheikh Khozeem AbdulRaham, and Mallam AbdulGaniyy Sahid Esra, Secretary General, in a statement jointly signed, accused Adeleke of asking President Bola Tinubu to shun the rule of law and release the ‘withheld local government allocations to the council officials elected under the PDP.
The group also called for the investigation of the state leadership of your Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) for their role in the local government tussle.
The statement further advised traditional rulers in the state to conduct thorough findings before making public statements, in order to “make a balanced position and thereby avoid public embarrassment”.
The statement reads in part: “Governor Adeleke Ademola Nurudeen Jackson through all his deployed tactics is calling a plea to President Tinubu for release of ‘withheld Local Government Allocations’ is nothing but a call on President Tinubu to shun the rule of law as covered by all the pending suits, judgment and ruling and release the local government allocations to state government which is also contrary to the Supreme Court judgment delivered in July, 2024 but perhaps through his men allegedly elected on 22nd February, 2025.
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“The State Government must ensure, no matter how long it takes, that the workers involved in the miserable roles being played by the NULGE are investigated and recorded for future generations to know how innocent good people of Osun State were unjustly subjected to hardship for the evil and selfish interest of a few members of the Union.
“It is highly surprising that the League of Imams and Alfas, who represented themselves to the public as speaking for the Muslim Ummah, could jettison the Islamic brotherhood by turning themselves into a religious mouthpiece of the Governor Ademola Adeleke-led Peoples Democratic Party at the detriment of the interests of other Muslims in various political parties.”
The group urged Governor Adeleke to face the fact and stop governing the state with deceit, dishonesty, falsity, misleading, and cheap propaganda.
“Governor Ademola Adeleke should dissociate himself from all the misleading information being peddled around over the local government allocations contrary to the real facts of the issues or be ready to be taken as governing the state with deceits, dishonesties, falsities, misleading and cheap propaganda,” the statement added.
