The Osun State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sunday Bisi, yesterday, said that the lingering local councils control crisis in the state was a manifestation of the booby trap set for Governor Ademola Adeleke by his predecessor, Gboyega Oyetola.

According to him, the Yes/No council poll Oyetola conducted after he lost re-election in 2022 was the foundation for the logjam being witnessed at the third tier of government in the state.

Bisi, who spoke at the 46th edition of the Frontliners, a current affairs programme organised by the Osun State chapter of the League of Veteran Journalists in Osogbo, the state capital, said that Oyetola ought not to have conducted the council election, as the Electoral Act requires a notice period of 360 days before the conduct of any election in the country.

He said that Oyetola only gave a 60-day notice, thus violating legal procedures.

The Osun PDP chairman, who insisted that the ongoing crisis at the councils is a deliberate ploy orchestrated by Oyetola to make Osun ungovernable for Adeleke and to stoke violence, said the result of the illegal council election is the political tension currently ravaging Osun State, particularly at the council level.

Bisi asserted that the PDP remained committed to pursuing justice both and politically.

He, therefore, called on President Bola Tinubu to urgently intervene in the ongoing political impasse by directing all parties involved to abide by the rule of law.

MEANWHILE, the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has called on the President to urgently wade into the current council crisis in Osun State and find a lasting solution to it.

This was contained in a communique signed by the National Financial Secretary, Lanre Omisore and Publicity Secretary, Adeyinka Akala.

The group equally threw its weight behind the President’s policies and the renewed hope agenda for the wellbeing of Nigerians.

The group, which reaffirmed its loyalty and support to the leadership of Afenifere worldwide, headed by Reuben Fasoranti, dissociated itself from the faction headed by Oba Oladipo Olaitan.

However, the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) has been urged to immediately enforce a series of court judgments affirming the legality of the February 22 local council elections in Osun State, which produced 30 chairpersons and 332 councillors on the platform of the PDP.

A letter dated June 23, 2025, and received at the AGF’s office on Monday, which was written by prominent constitutional lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mike Ozekhome, on behalf of the PDP-elected council officials, had accused the AGF of aiding what he described as an ongoing illegality by backing sacked APC officials still occupying council secretariats across the state.

Ozekhome criticised a directive given by the AGF on 26 March 26, 2025, instructing the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy that local council allocations be disbursed to the sacked APC officials until the expiration of their purported tenure in October.