The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has criticized Governor Ademola Adeleke for taking the federal government to the Supreme Court over the non-release of local government allocations since February 2025.

The move followed an ongoing crisis in Osun’s local government administration, sparked by disputes between the APC and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over conflicting court judgments, which have stalled grassroots governance and led to the withholding of funds.

On Monday, the state, through its Attorney-General, filed an Originating Summons (SC/CU/773/2025) at the Supreme Court against the Attorney-General of the Federation. Among its prayers, Osun sought to stop the federal government from releasing funds to APC-controlled council executives and to ensure the allocations go to PDP-elected officials.

Reacting, APC’s Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi, described the move as evidence of confusion within the Adeleke administration, accusing it of failing to comply with the law and creating unnecessary legal battles.

“The latest approach of the apparently confused Governor Adeleke’s administration is an indication that it has reached a dead end on the futile efforts to grab the people’s allocations at the grassroots, which are meant for delivery of good governance inclusive of dividends of democracy by the local governments to their people after all efforts to get ill-conceived propaganda from the backdoor on the issue proved abortive.”

Olabisi said, “The way and manners the Osun State Government has been going about the local government allocations issue from the Federal Government underscore the fact that it lacks diplomacy, competence and simple understanding required to govern at any level, not to talk of a complex state like Osun.

“With this development, the principal active players propelling the machinery of Governor Adeleke’s government should cover their faces in shame because of the latest moves indicating the emptiness of the man at the helm of affairs In the state.

“One needs not beat about the bush to submit and conclude that Osun State is in a serious problem under the watch of Governor Adeleke, as almost all things are in tupsy-turfy since the inauguration of his inglorious administration in 2022.

“Governance goes beyond merely constantly engaging in sloganeering and ridiculously dancing at every event, which has been seen as a ploy to cover up administrative ineptitude and gross incompetence, which have become the imprimatur of this administration.”

He contended that the government has a duty to respect the rule of law and not to promote blackmail to bully the opposition to silence over their lawful reinstatement into the councils, the Federal Government and its ministers to act contrary to the laws of the land.

“One is surprised that the same government that quickly discontinued its earlier suit at the Supreme Court less than six weeks ago has rushed again to the same court over the same issues with no different facts. It Is a big proof of a fact that Osun State is in a big mess to have once entrusted its future in the hands of the current occupiers of the Bola Ige House.” (The Nation)