Following today's 13th June 2025 Court of Appeal decision regarding Osun LGs, there has been deliberate misinterpretation of what the Court actually decided. It is crucial to set the record straight about the legal implications of this ruling.
The Court of Appeal, per Obiorah JCA, unanimously refused APC's application to relist an appeal that had been previously dismissed. This decision was solely about relisting procedure and nothing more.
Thus, contrary to mischievous interpretations circulating, today's judgment did not upset or overturn the Court of Appeal's decision of 10th February 2025, did not address the substantive matter of the LG Chairmen's reinstatement, and had no bearing whatsoever on the validity of the restored LG officials via the latter judgment of the same CA on 10/02/2025.
The Court of Appeal's decision of 10th February 2025, which explicitly reinstated the Osun LG Chairmen by allowing the appellants' appeal, remains unappealed and sacrosanct. As a matter of established law, today's procedural ruling on relisting could not and did not touch the substance of that earlier decision. The reinstated LG Chairmen remain legitimate and retain their positions until a superior court specifically overrules the extant decision of 10th February 2025, and no such superior court decision exists.
Those deliberately misrepresenting today's procedural ruling as somehow invalidating the February reinstatement are either legally ignorant or intentionally misleading the public. The law is clear, and the LG Chairmen's restoration stands firm.
Misbau Alamu Lateef, PhD, Akogun Odugbire Compound Ifon, Orolu L.G Osun State
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