Adeleke’s two years as gov have taken Osun back to primitive age, says APC

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the state governor, Ademola Adeleke, of making a mockery of governance and taking the state back to a primitive age through his ideas and policies.

Addressing a press conference to review how Adeleke’s administration has fared in the last two years, the opposition party described his government as “motion without movement.”

The party’s Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi, said despite the “staggering revenue accrued to his government” in the last two years, Adeleke has been paying lip service to the well-being of the workers.

He said Osun is one of the few states in the country reluctant to issue a circular regarding the new National Minimum Wage, which he said some states have even covenanted to pay in arrears up to July this year.

“By all estimates, Osun has been lucky with revenue, particularly with the federal revenue which has recorded a 100% rise in the last 12 months. The federal allocation in 2022 before the inauguration of the current government was N73 billion (before debt deductions). Meanwhile, as of the end of the third quarter of 2024 (September), the state had already received N153 billion federal allocation, N50 billion above the N99 billion projected for the whole year. In spite of this financial windfall, Governor Adeleke has refused to fund the key sectors of the economy, save for the allocation to his office, which has recorded 170% performance thus far,” Olabisi stated.

“Of the N82 billion earmarked for Personnel this year, only N39 billion, representing 47% of the projection for the year, was released as of September. This is according to the budget performance record for the third quarter. It is strange to note also that out of N20.5 billion earmarked for pension and gratuity in 2024, only N4.8 billion, representing less than 20%, had been released as of September. In fact, out of N11.4 billion budgeted for pension and gratuity arrears, no kobo was released as of the end of the third quarter. The picture here is that the claim of Governor Adeleke of offsetting the backlog of pension and gratuity is a fat lie from the pit of hell. There is nothing to justify the claim in the official document of the state government.”

On education, Olabisi argued that Adeleke’s government has proven to be an irredeemable failure, ranging from the sack of 1,500 teachers employed by his predecessor without replacement yet, to satanic fees in public schools.

He said the incumbent government has also been a fantastic failure in health over the last two years.

“In summary, the two years of Governor Ademola Adeleke have been a motion without movement. No impactful effort to drive the people out of poverty to financial prosperity. The only sector that has been adequately funded is the Office of the Governor, where one computer laptop was bought for N2.1 million, and N3 billion was allocated to buy 20 Landcruiser Jeeps for unproductive politicians,” Olabisi maintained.