By Mojisola Oladele
The Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Osun State, Mr.Oluwole Jimi- Bada said the Court of Appeal did not reinstate the council chairmen sacked by a Federal High Court in the state.
Mr. Jimi – Bada made the clarification while addressing newsmen in his office, State Secretariat in Osogbo.
He maintained that the court never reinstated the sacked council officials, saying the judgement in the case filed by the APP, wherein the court nullified the election is the realm that affected all parties.
Mr. Jimi – Bada explains “I want to confirm to you straight away that Court of Appeal Akure did not go into the merit of the Appeal launched by the APC before them. Their finding was just that there was no cause of action on as at the time PDP brought suit against OSSIEC at the Federal High Court and what the Court of Appeal did was to strike out the originating summon filed by the PDP, and that was all.”
Radio Nigeria Correspondent report that, There had been counter interpretation of the Judgement of the Court of Appeal sitting in Akure held on 10th February , among the State government, the All Progressives Congress, APC, Peoples Democratic Party ,PDP and the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission,OSSEIC.
While the APC said the appellate court reinstated the sacked elected council officials, the PDP and state government disagreed, saying it only struck out PDP’s case.
Meanwhile, the official activities across the Thirty Local Government Areas under the leadership of Heads of Local Government Administration, went on smoothly as at the time of filling in this report.
However combined Security Operatives were noticed around the premises of the Local Government secretariats.
