Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State yesterday conducted local government elections in the state amid very low voter turnout, despite the warnings by the Attorney General of the Federation and the Minister of Justice, Mr. Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), and the Inspector General of Police (IG), Kayode Egbetokun.
This is just as Adeleke commended President Bola Tinubu for supporting the rule of law and allowing the elections, which were boycotted by the All Progressives Congress (APC), to hold.


The Chairman of the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSSIEC), Hashim Abioye, has claimed that operatives of the Nigeria Police Force sealed the headquarters of the commission and arrested staff who were on election duty across the state.
Abioye, who made the claim in a statement issued via the commission’s official X page explained that the development led to the commission’s inability to provide accreditation materials for journalists.
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has clinched all the 30 chairmanship and 332 councillorship seats in the state.


The state has been engulfed in a political crisis between the ruling PDP and the opposition APC over the local government seats in the state.
The crisis escalated on Monday, leading to the killing of six persons, including an APC chieftain.
The state government had blamed the crisis on the APC and former governor Gboyega Oyetola, now Minister of Marine and Blue Economy.
Adeleke had vowed that nothing would stop yesterday’s election from holding and urged the people to turn out en masse.


Fagbemi had on Thursday called on Adeleke, to direct the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC) to call off yesterday’s local government election in the state.
The AGF, in a statement he signed in Abuja, had warned that conducting a new local government council elections would not only be invalid but would also amount to a breach of the Constitution since the tenure of the purportedly sacked council chairmen was still running according to a recent decision of the Court of Appeal, Akure Division.

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