Osun state chapter of the Christian Association of
Nigeria, OS-CAN, has warned that if Governor Rauf
Aregbesola proceeds with implementing the recent
State High Court judgment on wearing of Hijab by
Muslim students, Christian students will start
wearing church garments to the state public schools.

This was contained in a communiqué issued and
signed by the state CAN Chairman, Rev. Elisha
Ogundiya, at the end of an emergency meeting of the state CAN Executive Committee of Heads of Blocks and Heads of Churches held in Osogbo on Tuesday.

The meeting deliberated on the outcome of the Hijab case with particular reference to the 3 June, 2016 judgment of Hon. Justice Saka Oyejide Falola of the Osun State High Court sitting at Court No. 5 Osogbo and resolved to, among other things, appeal the verdict.

According to the communiqué, “OS-CAN states that it finds itself unable to agree with the judgement in its entirety as we have reasons to believe that it
represents a study in premeditated adjudication that
runs against the printed grain of legal submissions
made before him. We have unanimously decided to
appeal the judgement.

“Specifically speaking, Justice Saka Oyejide Falola
deeply violated the principle of fair hearing when he
refused and or failed to hear, let alone rule, one way
or the other, on the application for a joinder in the
case properly filed and brought to his attention in
open court by the interested parties whose schools
were taken over forcefully by the government and
stood to be affected by the judgment he later
proceeded to deliver.”