From Lateef Dada, Osogbo
The Osun State House of Assembly may soon draw the battlelines with Governor Adeleke over the Executive Orders he made on the state anthem and logo.
The legislators, in a statement by the Chairman, House Committee on Media and Publicity, Moshood Akande, maintained that the state shall and would continue to be described as the State of the Virtuous (Ipinle Omoluabi) despite the changes to State of the Living Spring.
Adeleke had also removed the state logo from the governor’s podium and shunned the state anthem at his campaign office where he sworn in the new appointees.
Subsequently, the state flag in from of government office, Abere, were removed and replaced with the PDP flags.
The Assembly maintained that usage of the state’s Anthem, Crest and Flag is an enactment of law and as such, its usage is a matter of law and not by choice.
“The State ofthe Osun House of Assembly having reviewed the inaugural speech of the governor and the activities of the inauguration hereby resolves as follows; The enactment ‘State of Osun Anthem, Crest and Flag Law, 2012’ assented to on the 18th of December, 2012 contained in Schedule I, Il, Ill, IV and V, which carefully details every component of this law is not in ambiguity.
“Schedule I is the State Anthem, Schedule II has to do with the State Crest, Schedule III is the symbolic significance of the elements in the Flag.
“Lastly, while we are aware of a court judgment in effect recognizing “Osun State,” the Assembly, pending the determination and exhaustion of all legal means would not be drawn into this matter.
“However, the State shall and will continue to be described as the State of the Virtuous (Ipinle Omoluabi).”
