Osun state APC on Wednesday submitted that Governor Ademola Adeleke has in his three months in office performed woefully describing his first 100 days as ‘uneventful, hellish, displeasing, nasty, distasteful, wicked, unsavoury and unpalatable’.
The party also accused Governor Adeleke of allegedly misusing N90billion belonging to the state government.
Acting state APC Chairman, Hon. Tajudeen Lawal , who presided over a press conference at the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign Office, Osogbo, on Wednesday which was attended by journalists including Team@orientactualmags.com, accused Adeleke of managing the meagre resources belonging to the state poorly and using it for frivolities saying ‘what the state had received in the last three months was enough to build sustainable infrastructural development capable of sustaining the state for the next four years’.
He noted that apart from the regular FAAC totaling N15 billion that the Adeleke administration had received, due to the diligent administration of the state by the immediate past Governor Adegboyega Oyetola, the state government had equally received about N11 billion from Siftas; N5 billion from NG CARES and N6.7 billion Federal Government parastatal tax liability respectively in the last three months.
Lawal also disclosed that the Adeleke administration had in the last three months received another N3.2 billion ‘Nigeria for Women Project’; N4.9 billion State Ease of Doing Business Reforms among others, apart from the N14 billion left in the kitty by the Oyetola administration totaling over N60 billion.
The State APC Acting Chairman further alleged that the Adeleke administration has misused a total sum of N30 billion that accrued to the coffers of 30 Local Governments in the state and Ife-East Area Office within 100 days.
Lawal, who accused Adeleke of running a dubious administration, said the governor had not shown to the people that ‘he is focused’ as ‘he has been operating like a bull in the China shop in order to feign seriousness’.
He described Adeleke’s scorecard across sectors of the economy as a monumental failure citing issuance of what he called disputatious, ignoble, obnoxious, unpopular and highly controversial executive orders ‘among which was the one that he used to humiliate three already crowned traditional rulers by asking them to stay away from their palaces without any justifiable reason’.
‘It will be pedestrian and monochromatic to talk about Adeleke’s promised intervention in the primary health projects across the state and the construction of boreholes in each of the 332 wards in the state as a random investigation of the same, like others, has shown that they are only a mirage and delusion which are only existing in the imagination of the sacked governor and his co-travellers.
The list of such fraudulent projects which Adeleke has slated for inauguration is legendary! The most dubious of the superfluous projects is the N16 billion so called Digital Economy with no clear- cut understanding of what the administration wants to spend N16 billion on.
We want to put the record straight and note that the so-called Osun Tech Revolution project that Adeleke inaugurated with fanfare three days ago is a scam skillfully orchestrated to swindle the state as it isn’t a new project.
It was Oodua Infraco that was given its approval by the President Buhari Muhammed administration which had earlier approached the government of Oyetola for the approval of the government right of way which was joyously granted free of charge as it was found out that it would be beneficial to the people of the state.
It was for lack of nothing tangible to showcase that is making Adeleke to fraudulently roll out the drums, counting same as part of his achievements in his first 100 days .
The telemedicine that Adeleke was busy talking about is like building something on nothing as majority of the inhabitants of the state are rural dwellers who cannot afford internet-compliant telephone sets. How will this set of people access telemedicine? The only way of taking care of the health of the rural people is by strengthening primary health care system.
It is on record that the Oyetola administration succeeded in making available functional primary healthcare delivery system adequately equipped with drugs and manpower whom Adeleke sacked. The telemedicine stuff by Adeleke is a mere political jamboree dubiously designed to siphon off money from the state which could be said to be dead on arrival.
The project is a scam as a certain level of physical contact is needed for observation and inspection in order to achieve effective healthcare service delivery.
Another programme that is not worthy of being presented as an achievement of any government that is worth its salt just the way the Adeleke administration is shamelessly doing is medical outreach programme. Haba Mr Governor! This is too elementary to be listed by a serious government as an achievement. It is like leaving leprosy and treating ringworm. It is another jamboree designed to score a cheap political point with a motive to scam the people of the state’ Lawal alleged.
He also said it was disheartening to know that Adeleke had within the three months of his administration sacked over 1,500 teachers and volunteers of the Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme (OYES) employed by his predecessor for no just cause.
‘Adeleke also sacked 500 health workers when there were no enough number of the required health staff in the state. Adeleke has been using political hoodlums to torment, harass, maim and kill members of the opposition APC members before, during and after the Presidential and National Assembly elections.
Within the period under review, the governor succeeded in dissolving the age-long National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in the state and promptly and surprisingly replaced them with handpicked and heavily compromised Park Managers under the leadership of a notorious and daredevil political thug who hails from Osogbo.
The sacked governor in a similar manner also dissolved the O’Meal operators and forcefully withdrew official cars from the Iyaloja-General of the state and other Iyalojas (market women leaders) across the state.
It is still fresh in the memory of the Ijesa communities how Adeleke acting out of victimisation, oppression and vindictiveness stopped the operation of the Ilesa University (IU) established by the administration of Oyetola despite the fact that the elated Ijesa people had contributed and donated handsomely for the take-off of the university project. He killed the dreams of so many decades among the Ijesa people. It is also worth recalling that the $106 million Ilesa Water Project has also been stopped by Adeleke for no reason’ he added.
Also taking questions from journalists, former Commissioner for Works, Hon Remi Omowaiye said the incumbent governor had proved ‘his incompetence, incapability and lack of political and administrative capability’ calling on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to visit the state and investigate the financial impropriety being allegedly perpetrated by the Adeleke administration.
He warned Governor Adeleke to be circumspect and guided in the way he dips his hand into the public kitty ‘as any fund found to have been spent by him without due process shall attract statutory sanction on the day of the reckoning which is fast approaching’ .
‘For instance, it is a common knowledge that the immediate past Governor Adegboyega Oyetola had continued the Osogbo -Ikirun-Kwara boundary road project as the sum of N1billion had been released to the contractor, therefore any claim by Adeleke to have attributed the continuation of the road project to his government was not only a scam but fraudulent.
It is an insult on the collective sensibility of the Osun people for Adeleke to say that he wants to introduce telemedicine after sacking several health workers for political reason’ Omowaiye said-Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980. Thank you
