Adeleke gets a 10-day deadline to pay judges' allowances.

Adebayo stated in a statement dated Thursday, September 21, signed by himself and received by our correspondent in Osogbo, that if Adeleke does not comply with the request by September 30, legal action to compel him to pay up will begin on October 3 in a court of competent jurisdiction.

In a communication to our correspondent, the lawyer verified that he was the author of the statement and added that, in addition to the arrears of outstanding allowances, he would seek interest and aggravated damages for the underpaid entitlements.

"This serves as a notice to the Governor, the Government, and the Judicial Service Commission of Osun State of Nigeria that if all the arrears of allowances owed all the Judicial Officers in the state (both serving and retired) from the tenure of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola till date are not liquidated on or before the 30th day of September 2023, I, JCI Senator Mutalubi Ojo Adebayo, SAN, shall on the

"Please be advised that I will also seek interest and aggravated damages in respect of those unpaid allowances because the actions of the Government of Osun State in refusing to pay them over the years amount to callousness, recklessness, disregard for the rule of law, indecent and unfair."

However, as of the time of reporting this article, the governor's spokeswoman, Olawale Rasheed, had yet to respond to the statement.