Update on The Ongoing Fight Between Adeleke Government and State Chief Judge

UPDATE ON THE ONGOING FIGHT BETWEEN THE ADELEKE GOVERNMENT AND THE STATE CHIEF JUDGE

By AAkin Adeyi

According to reports the National Industrial Court sitting in Ibadan has held that, the Governor of Osun State, The Attorney General of Osun State, Osun State House of Assembly and Accountant General of Osun State do not have the right to initiate the removal of the Chief Judge of Osun State.

It will be recalled the state judiciary was recently shut down for about four months due to disputes that ensued between the State Chief Judge, Justice Adeleke Ojo and the Judiciary Staff Union of Osun(JUSUN).

The state government under the watch of Governor Ademola Adeleke in the strangest manner shocked the collective intelligence of the people of the state and Nigeria as a whole when they rushed to pronounce the removal of the CJ and announced her replacement with a certain Justice Afolabi who is the next in rank.

However, a smarter Justice Afolabi saw it as a treacherous and dangerous attempt by Adelekes to use him as a political weapon for their fight against the CJ and he knows the consequences. Hence, his vamoose into the thing air on the day of his purported inauguration.

The NJC was to later wade into matter when the body charged with discipline and regulation of the conduct of Judges directed that status quo should remain and so it has remained till yesterday when National Industrial Court sitting in Ibadan held that, the Governor of Osun State, The Attorney General of Osun State, Osun State House of Assembly and Accountant General of Osun State do not have the right to initiate the removal of the Chief Judge of Osun State.

Akoni Oodua….what this implies is that the state government led by Mr Ademola Adeleke completely erred in law and in all ramifications by their actions so far in this issue. The the law, at the instance of Justice Adepele, should not hesitate to punish them for it.
What they did was the height of executive rascality. What about those that they made to suffer unduly with the senseless strike action protest? They should be compensated.

Although the people are already saying that a responsible government which they are not will never consider the victims of their callous ineptness for any compensation.
Many people undeservedly languished in detention for the four months because they couldn’t have their bail issues argued. Some reportedly died in the process. Lawyers had their businesses negatively tampered with. The same for others whose means of livelihood depends on courts functioning.

However, this is another one that will go down in the anal of history against the Ademola Adeleke regime in Osun. The good people of Osun will never forget in a hurry that they once had a governor and head of Executive arm of government who once though, out of ignorance and over assumptions of his position as governor of the state, shut down another arm of government, the judiciary at that and for four months over nothingness.