As preparations heighten ahead of August 15 gubernatorial polls in Osun, the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Sunday told civil servants to resist what it termed alleged ‘Greek gift’ of N20,000 each from Governor Ademola Adeleke.

The opposition party alleged that Adeleke, who is the flag bearer of the Accord had prefected plan to buy votes of all the workers by crediting their individual bank accounts with the cash sum as part his moves to avoid electoral defeat.

A statement by the APC’s director of media and information, Kola Olabisi, said the purported largesse would also be extended to all local government councils employees.

According to Olabisi, information at the disposal of the opposition party indicated that the payment of N20,000, had been approved across board to all the state workers as an inducement for them to vote for him in the 15th August, 2026 governorship election, disclosing that the beneficiaries would start receiving alerts on Monday.

While warning civil servants to be wary of such financial inducement, the statement reminded them of alleged Adeleke’s failure to pay leave bonuses to all categories of staff from May 2025.

“It is also on record that the governor has failed to remit co-operative deductions and the remittance of the loans deductions from workers salaries the workers whose votes he has concluded plans to buy for the governorship election.

“The state workers are also reminded about the failure of the Accord Party governorship candidate to remit pension deductions to Pension Fund Administrators. Governor Adeleke’s failure and refusal to remit deductions made in respect of Health Insurance Scheme and remittance of check-off dues to trade unions in the state is known to all and sundry.

“It is absurd and criminal for the governor to engage in vote buying from all the active government workers in the state which has been outlawed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

“All indications and unfolding development in the state have shown that the people of the state have rejected the Ede-born governor because his actions and inactions in the close to four years in the office have shown him as a misnomer for the office of a state governor in order to restore the lost glory of the state under the Adeleke administration.

“We are calling on the State Resident Electoral Commissioner, the National INEC chairman, the state police command and the state Director of Department of State Services to work in tandem in order to burst this electoral fraud approved by the state governor in the interest fair, free and credible governorship election in the state, “the APC added.