APC chides Adeleke over 2018 guber poll claims, warns against rubbishing judiciary

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday, cautioned the state governor, Ademola Adeleke, against disparaging the judiciary with his claim of winning the 2018 governorship election in the state. According to the opposition party in Osun State, “this statement of Senator Adeleke is unnecessary as it amounts to telling the whole world that he doesn’t have confidence in the judiciary, which through the Supreme Court of the land, saw sufficient proof that he lost the 2018 governorship election to the former governor, Gboyega Oyetola, now the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy.” Director of Media and Information of the APC, Kola Olabisi, in a statement, said: “Senator Adeleke should be reminded that a governorship election in Nigeria is a process which begins at the primary level to the election proper, to the tribunal, Court of Appeal and terminates at the Supreme Court.

“It is instructive to drum it into Adeleke’s ears that any allusion made by him or any other person that he (Adeleke) won the 2018 governorship election is not only contemptuous but amounts to rebuking the judiciary that it doesn’t know what it is doing. “It also beats the imagination of any right-thinking member of the society that a beneficiary of the same judiciary during the 2022 election could be bold enough to be deriding the same judiciary that pronounced him the winner of the governorship election against Oyetola, the APC’s candidate. “We, as a party, have since moved on as a committed democrat that has an absolute confidence in the nation’s judiciary and all the tenets of the rules of law.



“We want to make it abundantly clear to Adeleke and his co-travellers that his continuous disparaging of the judiciary over his loss of the 2018 election would not confer any special advantage on him in the 2026 election, which he should be prepared to lose because of his unenviable scorecard.”.