{"id":2070,"date":"2025-02-17T09:26:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T09:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=2070"},"modified":"2025-02-17T09:26:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T09:26:57","slug":"gov-adeleke-raises-alarm-says-oyetola-plots-to-cause-mayhem-in-osun-respect-appeal-court-ruling-rather-than-resorting-to-cheap-blackmail-oyetola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/gov-adeleke-raises-alarm-says-oyetola-plots-to-cause-mayhem-in-osun-respect-appeal-court-ruling-rather-than-resorting-to-cheap-blackmail-oyetola\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov Adeleke raises alarm, says Oyetola plots to cause mayhem in Osun\u00a0 \u00a0…respect Appeal court ruling rather than resorting to cheap blackmail-Oyetola"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Our Reporter<\/div>\n
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Following disagreement between Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke and Minister of Marin Blue Economy, Gboyega Oyetola, the governor on Sunday raised the alarm that the Minister, is planning to cause mayhem in the state from Monday, February 17 (today).<\/div>\n
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Adeleke made the allegation during a press conference on Sunday, alleging Oyetola is spearheading moves to enforce a court order which reversed the sack of local council chairmen, elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state.<\/div>\n
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Adeleke further alleged that Oyetola is conspiring with several law enforcement agents, including the State Commissioner of Police and the State Director of the Department of State Services, DSS, to destabilize the state.<\/div>\n
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Adeleke said: \u201cI called this press conference to alert the national and global audience about a deliberate plot to create chaos and anarchy in Osun State.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI invite you all to expose a fascist anti-democratic agenda designed to enforce a non-existing court judgment on our local governments.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThis evil plot is being spearheaded by the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Mr Gboyega Oyetola in active collaboration with the Osun state Commissioner of Police, the Osun state Director of DSS and the State Commandant of the Civil Defense Corps.<\/div>\n
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\u201cBefore I continue this address, let me affirm that I know Mr. President to be a true democrat, a lover of rule of law, and a believer in the sanctity of the judicial process.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI know, as a matter of fact, that Mr. President will never authorise a dictatorial violation of the constitution irrespective of who is involved. It is crucial to add that Mr. President will never support any action that is capable of generating bloodbath and bloodshed.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI, however, regret to inform Mr. President and the public that Mr Gboyega Oyetola has concluded an arrangement to cause mayhem in Osun State starting from Monday.<\/div>\n
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\u201cHe is issuing illegal directives to security operatives to enforce illegality simply because he is the nephew of Mr. President.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI chose to alert the nation before my people are killed or maimed by a minister dropping the name of Mr. President in connivance with the Osun State security operatives obeying unlawful orders.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe bone of contention is the brazen effrontery to return to office council chairmen sacked by a subsisting court judgment using a different court decision, which has no consequential order.<\/div>\n
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\u201cLet me make it clear that the said council chairmen were sacked before I was sworn in as governor of Osun State, contrary to the lies being peddled, that the chairmen and councilors were sacked by my Executive Order,\u201d Adeleke submitted.<\/div>\n
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In his reaction, Oyetola, dismissed the allegation that he was plotting to destabilize Osun State, saying his antecedents, pedigree and track records of public service in the last 15 years does not support the claim by Governor Adeleke.<\/div>\n
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At the same time, the former governor has appealed to his successor to respect the Appeal Court judgement, rather than resort to cheap blackmail, which has no place in law.<\/div>\n
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In a statement by the Media Office of the minister, a copy of which was made available to journalists on Sunday, the statement described Oyetola as a man of peace who has tremendous respect for the judiciary, rule of law and constituted authority, as such would never be party to any breakdown of law and order.<\/div>\n
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“For the four years he governed Osun, he gave a good account of himself as a man of peace, a respecter of rule of law and one not given to violence. If he is given to violence, he would certainly have fought back violently in 2022 when he was brazenly rigged out.<\/div>\n
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“Again, in 2022, when Governor Ademola Adeleke employed extra-judicial means to sack democratically elected council officials, Oyetola as the leader of the party, never preached violence. Instead, he led the party members to court.<\/div>\n
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“Thankfully, his party won at the Appeal last week. And as a peace-loving leader, he appealed to security agencies to enforce the judgement of the court. How can such a man be accused of a destabilisation plot. I think anyone accusing Oyetola of violence needs to have his\/her head properly examined.<\/div>\n
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“The minister, is further seizing this opportunity to appeal to his successor to respect the Appeal Court judgement, rather than resort to cheap blackmail, which has no place in law,” Oyetola noted.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Our Reporter Following disagreement between Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke and Minister of Marin Blue Economy, Gboyega Oyetola, the governor on Sunday raised the alarm that the Minister, is planning to cause mayhem in the state from Monday, February 17 (today). Adeleke made the allegation during a press conference on Sunday, alleging Oyetola is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[991,1247,1245,1246,781,366],"class_list":["post-2070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-politics","tag-alarm","tag-anarchy","tag-mayhem","tag-planning","tag-plot","tag-threat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2072,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions\/2072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}