The Osun State Independent Electoral Commission, OSSIEC, has revealed that the February 22, 2025, local government election in the state will be held only in the constitutionally recognised local government council areas.
The commission also warned that the date of the local government poll remained sacrosanct notwithstanding the amendment to the original notice.
The OSSIEC Chairman, Barrister Hashim Abioye, made this known to journalists on Friday.
He debunked the news making the rounds that Osun is one of the states reported to have been rushing to conduct local government elections due to the local government autonomy judgement declared by the Supreme Court as against the notice already published by the OSSIEC since February 19, 2024.
“As far as OSSIEC and the February 22, 2025 local government election process is concerned, the news is reckless and baseless.”
Abioye said the meeting became necessary due to the fact that OSSIEC was amending the the notice of local…