Two chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, Jamiu Olawumi and Adebayo Adedeji, have dragged the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, and Governor Ademola Adeleke?s aide, Dr Wale Bolorunduro, to the court for alleged harassment and intimidation.

In the originating summon for enforcement of fundamental rights filed before the Federal High Court, Osogbo, the applicants lamented what they described as serial police intimidation over puerile and orchestrated cyber-stalking and cyber bullying charge leveled against them.

Also joined in the suit as respondents are: Assistant Inspector General of Police ? Zone 11 and one Inspector Nancy of ZID.

A copy of the originating summon obtained by our correspondent in Osogbo, on Saturday, was brought to the court pursuant to sections 33, 34, 35, 37, 41 and 46 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, as amended.

The applicants accused the 4th respondent, Bolorunduro, of using unmerited powers and brute state machinery to harass them contrary to their fundamental rights to personal liberty, privacy and movement as guaranteed by

In the case with Suit No: FHC/OS/CS/106/2025 dated 22nd May, 2025, the applicants lamented breach of their fundamental rights by the respondents who have been illegally trailing them since 12th of May for no just cause beyond the fact that they have been playing responsible opposition role of tasking Governor Adeleke of Osun to run an accountable government and be more transparent to the citizens who elected him.

Olawumi, a popular broadcast journalist and former Special Adviser on Education to ex-Governor Adegboyega Oyetola and Adedeji, the head of digital media of Osun State APC, insisted that the respondents have exceeded their constitutional limits having harassed and humiliated them for no justifiable cause despite the fact that the proof of evidence of the subject matter of the allegations leveled against them were not supplied even though their legal representative demanded a copy of petition or Court Warrant.

According to the summon, ?the 1st to 3rd Respondents have never invited the Applicants for any interview or investigation but have rather used a strategy induced with criminal intent to harass, intimidate and trail the Applicants upon the instigation of the 4th Respondent.

?The applicants counsel reached out to the 1st to 3rd Respondents to make a request for the petition and official invitation against the applicants but he was denied access to same.

?The 1st to 3rd respondents were hellbent on arresting the Applicants through the backdoor without any notice or invitation upon the instigation of the 4th Respondent.

?That the Men and Officers of the 1st to 3rd Respondents never caused an invitation letter to be written and served on the Applicants to come and answer the allegations levied against them.

?That the applicants as human being and Citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria are entitled to the protection of their Fundamental Rights in the hands of the Respondents.?

They sought an order, directing the respondents to pay the sum of N5 million for the false allegations brought with the calculative intention to traumatize and defame them.

They also sought an order of the court, directing the respondents to pay aggravated damages/compensation in the sum of N6 and tender a public apology to them for the psychological, emotional and mental torture they and their family members have gone through as a result of the frequent intimidation. (The Sun)

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