Leadership of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Osun State has frowned at what they termed the dangerous act of impersonation by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members who claimed they were the elected and duly sworn-in chairmen of local governments of the state under the umbrella of Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON).
The APC State Director of Information and Strategy, Mongaji Kola Olabisi, stated this in reaction to insinuation by the PDP local government leadership of ALGON, Osun State which faulted the statement credited to APC governorship aspirant in the state, Mr. Kunle Adegoke, who they alleged openly admitted that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had opened accounts in the names of local government councils in Osun State, and that the signatories to those accounts were not the legitimate civil servants but members of the APC recruited to claim local government civil service positions and offices illegally.
According to Olabisi , “The PDP lie persistently repeated could be taken for the truth by the unsuspecting members of the public, we shall endeavour to state unequivocally that the 10th February, 2025 Court of Appeal judgement which expressly reinstated the APC local government council chairmen and councillors is explicit enough for proper comprehension even by non-lawyers.”
Olabisi said, “In the eyes of the law, the reinstated elected APC local government council chairmen are the legally recognised executive local government bosses in charge of the council affairs in Osun State today.
“The only known and recognised state chairman of ALGON is Hon. Abiodun Idowu who is duly acknowledged at the headquarters of the body in Abuja.
“The truants behind the composition of the unsigned purported press statement knew the implication which was the reason they are afraid to put forward the name of their fellow impostors.”
“We want to enjoin the members of the public to discountenance the hogwash that oozed out from the impersonators who are calling themselves members of the Osun State ALGON as it diversionary, lacking merit and frivolous.
“Come to think of it, is the purported leadership of the Osun ALGON not lettered enough to know that the matter is in court and should not be commented upon?
“It is pretty difficult for someone to give what he does not possess and when the head is rotten, the entire body is in an irredeemable problem.”
The ALGON leadership had alleged that the APC members were impersonating the statutory civil servants who are the legitimate signatories to all existing accounts of the 30 local governments in Osun State.
They said what Adegoke admitted they have done with the connivance of the CBN was against the law and all extant establishment laws.
“Throughout the democratic world, politicians do not sign government cheques. We therefore call on the CBN to quickly close the illegal accounts it has opened for politicians. The intent is clear. It is to divert Osun people’s money to private and political pockets.
“It is worse that the so-called APC chairmen backing them were never legitimate office holders. Their purported election was nullified by the judgement of the Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo on 30th November, 2022, a judgement that was further affirmed by the Court of Appeal in Akure on 13th June, 2025. That is the settled law.
They remain sacked. For anyone to parade themselves as local government chairmen after these judicial pronouncements is nothing but an act of impersonation, an assault on our courts, and a criminal attempt to hijack public resources.
“It is even more alarming that, according to APC lawyer, Adegoke, officials of the Osogbo Branch of the Central Bank of Nigeria accepted the signatures of these APC impostors and opened accounts for them. This action is a brazen illegality, a disregard for subsisting court judgments, an infraction against banking and public account rules, and a direct threat to the welfare of the people of Osun State whose funds are at stake. We find it most disturbing that when the statutory civil servants, the Heads of Local Government Administration, Directors of Finance, and other lawful signatories, presented themselves at the Osogbo Branch of the CBN to open these accounts, they were turned away and the doors were shut against them.
“By law and by the reckoning of the Ministry of Local Government, the Local Government Service Commission, and the Auditor General for Local Governments in Osun State, the only lawful signatories are civil servants; not APC members or Members of any other political party.
“The CBN can simply contact the various commercial banks to confirm and authenticate the genuine signatories to the accounts of the 30 Local governments in Osun State. They are civil servants, not political party members.
“We are the authentic ALGON of Osun State, and we remain the only authority recognised by law to administer local government funds. Even at that, we do not sign cheques; civil servants do.
“This unfolding scandal at the CBN constitutes not only impersonation but a deliberate attempt to divert public funds. It is a matter of national importance that must be urgently investigated. The Central Bank of Nigeria, under the leadership of its Governor, must immediately probe the actions of its officials in Osogbo and call the APC lawyer, Mr. Kunle Adegoke to substantiate his claims on national television,” Osun State ALGON said.
Yinka Kolawole
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