A fresh crisis has engulfed the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) in Osun State as a coalition of registered political parties has demanded the immediate resignation of the council’s National Executive Committee (NEC), rejecting the caretaker committee recently constituted for the state chapter.

The aggrieved parties described the caretaker arrangement as unconstitutional, biased and an attempt to impose a leadership that lacks the confidence of the majority of political parties in the state.

They insisted that the decision, conveyed in a letter purportedly signed by IPAC National Chairman, Dr Yusuf Dantalle, and National Secretary, Barr. Maxwell Mgbudem, was unacceptable and amounted to a violation of the council’s constitution.

Speaking on behalf of the coalition at a press conference held at the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Correspondents’ Chapel in Osogbo on Saturday, Chairman of the Democratic Leadership Alliance (DLA), Dr Tosin Odeyemi, said the tenure of the immediate past IPAC Chairman in Osun, Pastor Victor Akande of the Accord Party, ended in February 2026.

Odeyemi explained that an election scheduled for March 14 to elect a new executive could not hold because officials expected from the national secretariat failed to appear.

According to him, although the National Organising Secretary later assured stakeholders that a fresh date would be announced, no communication had been received since then.

He accused the national leadership of abandoning due process and instead imposing what he described as an illegal caretaker committee without consulting member parties.

The coalition alleged that the composition of the caretaker committee reflected political bias, claiming that eight of the nine members of the IPAC National Executive nominated their respective party chairmen in Osun into the committee while excluding other registered political parties.

The parties specifically questioned the appointment of the Action Peoples Party (APP) Chairman in Osun State, Odesola Oluseyi Titus, as chairman of the caretaker committee, alleging that the decision was influenced by the party’s perceived closeness to the ruling party in the state.

The aggrieved parties maintained that the IPAC Constitution does not recognise the establishment of caretaker committees, insisting that the national leadership acted outside its constitutional powers.

Describing the action as “broad daylight cheating and bias,” they warned that they would not recognise the caretaker committee and urged the IPAC National Executive Committee to resign for what they termed incompetence, insensitivity and disregard for democratic principles.

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