The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has accused the Nigeria Police Force of enabling a breakdown of law and order, even as local government workers resumed work on Monday.
In a statement by its Chairman, Sunday Bisi, the party called on Nigerians and the international community to hold the Nigeria Police accountable for the illegal takeover of council secretariats by individuals without lawful authority.
The party alleged that ‘the conduct of the Nigeria Police since the crisis began in February 2025 shows open partisanship and a departure from its constitutional duty to maintain peace and security’.
Bisi also accused the Nigeria Police of ‘aiding attempts to impose individuals without legal claims to local councils. We are warning that such actions undermine democratic rights at the grassroots level’.
While arguing that court judgments had invalidated the October 2022 local government elections, Bisi noted that the decisions were affirmed by two Appeal Court rulings.
According to him, the PDP questioned the legal basis upon which the Police continued to allow access to council secretariats by officials whose tenure had lapsed.
The party stated that ‘the filing of a suit seeking tenure elongation did not confer legal authority. Applications for interim relief had not been granted by the courts’.
Bisi urged the Nigeria Police to remain neutral, warning that disregard for court judgments could encourage disorder and undermine democracy.
DAILY POST had earlier reported that security was heightened at local government secretariats across the state as workers under the aegis of the National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) resumed work nearly eleven months after calling a strike.
The presence of police personnel became necessary after the Osun State Police Command announced last week that it had intelligence that some suspected individuals were planning to cause a breakdown of law and order as local government workers resumed work on Monday.
The police, while warning against such moves, also assured law-abiding workers that their safety was guaranteed.
Local government workers resumed work on Monday, 5 January 2026, after NULGE announced on Monday, 29 December 2025, that it would call off its eleven-month strike and allow its members to return to work.
