Osun LG Crisis: PDP Wants Letters From Office Of CJ Probed

Osun State section of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Federal High Court main justice to analyse the irregularities successful the letters allocating cases to judges allegedly issued from his bureau by his idiosyncratic assistant.

The party, astatine a property league addressed by its chairman, Hon Sunday Bisi, successful Osogbo yesterday, described the missive allegedly written connected August 21st, 2025, by Joshua Ibrahim Aji, Esq., assigning a judicial work to a justice of the Federal High Court arsenic a gross aberration.

“First, fto maine accidental this clearly: proxies oregon idiosyncratic assistants cannot workout judicial powers. They are reserved exclusively for judicial officers (judges). Unfortunately, that is the abnormal concern we are confronted with, which informed this property conference.

“On the 21st of August, 2025, a missive was issued and signed by Joshua Ibrahim Aji, Esq., who described himself arsenic Special Assistant to the Honourable Chief Judge of the Federal High Court. In that letter, judicial functions were purportedly exercised, assigning a judicial work to a tribunal judge.

The president noted that a Special Assistant is not a judicial officer, and judicial powers cannot beryllium exercised straight oregon by delegation done specified an aide. He added that to marque matters worse, different missive emerged dated 2nd September 2025, not adjacent signed by the alleged Special Assistant, but signed connected his behalf.

Bisi, who insisted that the powerfulness to transportation a substance from 1 justice of the Federal High Court to different is provided for nether the Federal High Court Act, added that specified transportation tin lone beryllium sought done a ceremonial application, successful unfastened court, earlier the presiding justice handling the substance and not successful secret.

The president who queried the rationale down the transportation of the lawsuit to Abuja erstwhile it was filed astatine the Osogbo Division, demanded that the lawsuit beryllium returned to the regular Federal High Court successful Osogbo, adding that immoderate transportation exertion indispensable beryllium made openly earlier the regular presiding judge.

Recall that the Osun State Government had, successful suit FHC/Os/CS/94/2025, dragged the Central Bank and ORS to tribunal to situation the determination to merchandise section authorities funds to alleged amerciable governmental functionaries successful the state.