Ajibola, a past NBA Chairman, Ilesa branch and a rights activist, in a statement on Thursday chided former Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s Adminstration for running Osun LG as a parliamentary system contrary to the provisions of the 1999 constitution.
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The fresh $29.96 billion foreign loan being sought for by President Muhammadu Buhari has drawn the ire of a human rights lawyer, Kanmi Ajibola, who, on Monday, instituted a legal action seeking the mandate of the court to stop the National Assembly from approving it.
The letter was dated December 16 and forwarded to the UN’s New York Secretariat on the same day.
It was titled: “Re: injustice here is a mark of injustice everywhere.”
The Chairman, Nigeria Bar Association, Ilesa Branch, Osun State, Kanmi Ajibola, has dragged the state Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, and his deputy, Benedict Alabi, to court for taking their oaths as governor and deputy governor of “State of Osun” and not of Osun State during their swearing-in of November 27, 2018.
The minister stated this while reacting to questions at the end of the meeting of the Federal Executive Council, which was chaired by President Buhari, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday
Justice Maurine Adaobi Onyetenu gave the order on Wednesday based on the suit filed Kanmi Ajibola and Sulaiman Adeniyi.
The duo of Kanmi Ajibola and Sulaiman Adeniyi had few weeks ago written to both the lower and the upper chambers of the National Assembly on the need to impeach Buhari, citing alleged constitutional breaches by the president and threatened that they will approach the court on the matter if they fail to do so.
Briefing the media on Monday in Osogbo, the state capital, Bishop Adeoye accused Governor Rauf Aregbesola of planning not only to press criminal charges of tax evasion against the NBA chairman but also “take him out of circulation”
Delivering judgment in a case instituted by a human rights activist, Barrister Kanmi Ajibola, challenging the legality of the State of Osun Land use charge Law, Justice Yinka Afolabi ruled that the law and its makers were unknown to the 1999 Constitution.
In a judgment delivered by Justice Adedoyin Olayinka Ayoola, the court upheld the preliminary objection filed by the Governor of Osun State challenging the suit on the basis of lack of locus standi by the Plaintiff.