Osun LG Debate: Some Posers for K-RAD

By Akinola Julius

OSUN LG DEBATE: SOME POSERS FOR K-RAD, MR. KUNLE ADEGOKE, SAN.

Mr. Kunle Adegoke, SAN, popularly known as K-RAD is a very humane, brilliant, humble personality, a legal professional of distinction. To the consternation of the whole world, the Osogbo-born senior lawyer recently dis-appointed the rule of law he is to promote as a Senior of Advocate of Nigeria. He betrayed the trust the legal profession reposed in him by battering the judiciary and sacrosanct court pronouncements. As a politician who has a guber ambition which is legitimately within his right, he should have separated his political ambition from his stance on rule of law. He should have let the people to know that on this Osun local government debacle, he stands with his political party, APC, and then he should have made his position clear as a politician instead of parroting unsound, biased, deliberate misinformation and wicked mis-representation about the Osun local government debate, while hiding under his “silk” as a Senior Lawyer.

Here are some posers for K-RAD:

1. Was the election conducted in 2022 by OSSIEC in line with the provisions of OSSIEC Law as well as Electoral Act, which provides for a 360-day notice?
2. What was the point decided in OSSIEC. V. Action Congress by the Supreme Court in 2010? Was it not the same point and the same position canvassed by the APC at the Supreme Court in the Rivers local government election where the Supreme Court invalidated the election and affirmed the decision of the Federal High Court, meaning that the Federal High Court has jurisdiction on local government matters?
3. If two different parties took another party to Court separately, and they got reliefs separately from Court against the same person, if on apoeal one of the two parties lost because his case was found to be premature like the PDP’s case in this Osun matter, has that taken away the reliefs granted in favour of the party who got reliefs in the other case like the APP’s case in this present Osun situation?
4. Please read out for us the consequential order made in the PDP’s case at the Court of Appeal in the judgment of 10th February that you erroneously claimed has reinstated your Chairmen and Councilors? Because, from what people have read only 3 reliefs were granted your party by the Court of Appeal: the appeal was allowed, that’s your prayer 1, your preliminary objection to jurisdiction (on account of the case being speculative), the suit was then struck out. Then, cost was awarded against PDP for bringing a premature case. Simple. Please point out the order of reinstatement in the said appeal, being truthful to the oath you swore as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.
5. The judgment in the other case on same local government issue by the APP against OSSIEC and your party APC, where should we keep that? Please answer the whole world whether the judgment is still subsisting or not? Has it been set aside? What is the status of the judgment? Do we record you and tell the whole world that you, a Senior Advocate has postulated that a subsisting judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction is useless and baseless?
6. If we take your opinion as you falsely parroted on your write-ups and even social media posts, including Facebook live programs, which you just ventured into now, like some social media junketing lawyers, that the APP’s judgment is useless, how about the Court of Appeal decision of 13th January, 2025 which dismissed the appeal of your party against that judgment you claimed it’s useless?
7. A little more on this, your party, after the dismissal of your appeal against the subsisting the judgment and order of the Federal High Court, you filed a relisting application which was also dismissed. What victory are you still claiming for your party in an appeal it lost? The judgment of the Federal High Court in the APP’s case in the appeal your party lost, hasn’t it crystallized into a judgment of the Court of Appeal by virtue of section 318 of the Nigerian 1999 Constitution? Or have you forgotten as a Senior Advocate that the pronouncement of the Court of Appeal and of course, of any court established under the constitution is an authority, whether it is an order, or a decree, or a conviction, or aanything?
8. I heard you said that as at the 30th November 2022 when the FHC delivered judgment in APP”s case, there was nothing to adjudicate upon, in good conscience, and as a lawyer, are you saying if two different parties sue another party separately in different suits, once the defendant is fined in the first suit, the Court should not find for the other party against that same defendant I the other case. Has the earlier case covered the field for the other? A little one further, assuming your claim was right, had the suit in the PDP’s case not been struck out meaning that same never existed, how did that affect the APP’s case that was filed when the cause of action had already arisen and the judgment in same is still validly subsisting?
9. How conceivable is it to you, that you are part of those encouraging payment of public funds into private accounts opened by members of your political party. The AGF’s letter said that APC excos should be paid Osun money, federal Accountant-General wrote to APC Secretariat beside GTB, Gbongan road, Osogbo, instead of to a public office. As a Senior Advocate of Nigeria yoi haven’t spoken about that to condemn that act of corruption, impunity and diversion of public funds. Is that not part of your responsibilities to the public as a Senior Advocate?
10. Penultimately, you have not said anything about the attitude of one of your trainees, Muhyideen Adeoye, whose attitude was condemned by the Court of Appeal and was heavily rebuked in the judgment of 13th June, 2025 by the Court of Appeal? Are you the one encouraging such unprofessional conducts on his part to the extent that it is the court that is warning him for you?
11. Lastly, in good conscience and to the whole world, don’t you consider that your political party has the APP’s case as an albatross, and yet you are encouraging them as if nothing?
Hope you will advise rightly, Learned Senior Advocate sir. While pursuing your Governorship ambition, remember the oath you swore as a Lawyer and a Senior Advocate. Are you on the side of rule of law on this? Are you not ridiculing the judiciary and a subsiting pronouncement of the Court just because you want to satisfy your political interest?

Akinola Julius, a Law Graduate, writes from Egbedore Local Government, Osun State.