The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused Governor Ademola Adeleke of evading accountability for his one-year anniversary by leaving the state. The party alleged that Adeleke absconded to avoid providing a report on his stewardship.
Recent reports suggested that Adeleke had traveled abroad, possibly for knee surgery, amid the anticipation of his one-year anniversary. In response, the governor’s spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, clarified that the absence was a vacation, citing the lack of any since assuming office.
In a statement released on Sunday, November 26, the APC, represented by its chairman Tajudeen Lawal, criticized Adeleke’s one-year administration. Lawal claimed that the governor had deliberately left the state to evade delivering a comprehensive account of his performance to the people.
He added: “Since November 2022 when he came on board, Governor Adeleke has run the state aground with his sheer incompetence, lack of proper education and his zero administrative acumen. He is afraid to disclose to the Osun people how he has mismanaged over N130 billion revenue accrued to his government in the last one year.
“Adeleke is afraid to tell them how he has allocated in the supplementary budget over N10billion for his food, entertainment and office use while the parents of UNIOSUN students are struggling to pay increased school fees his regime forced on them to pay. The Osun people deserve to know the whereabouts of their state executive.
“Governor Adeleke is ashamed to face the Osun people that one year after, his promise of making Osun another Dubai is a fluke told by a scoundrel and conman. Adeleke is distraught to face Osun people because he has failed to provide palliative for them in the face of economic hardship occasioned by the removal of fuel subsidy and the N9 billion he collected from the Federal Government, his demonic government has looted it.”
In his reaction, Rasheed said the opposition is still living in pain of the 2022 governorship and 2023 general elections.
He said: “When I assumed office, we had benchmarks and deliverables according to each sector. Our team sets milestones to achieve in health, education, infrastructures, ICT, agriculture, youth, and women among others. I looked back and I can tell you we performed beyond our plans.
“The opposition APC is still nursing the wound of their electoral defeat. So the party is ashamed to see the positive changes we are recording in the state. Our achievements are there for all to see.
“In the road sector, we reconstructed a total of 90 kilometres of roads with another 45 kilometres ongoing. We completely rehabilitated 31 schools with another 31 in the pipeline. We built 332 water projects while major water works at Iwo, Ede, Osogbo, and Eko Ende are under rehabilitation.”
