Gov Adeleke To Aregbesola: Your 2026 Guber Election Comments Not In Tune With Reality…You’re Osun’s ‘Worst-ever’ Governor

Governor Ademola Adeleke on Monday reacted to the comments made by former Minister for Interior, who is also one of his predecessors, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in respect of the upcoming 2026 governorship election submitting that the former governor is not in tune with reality.

The governor also alleged that Osun State people are still suffering from the inhumane maladministration Aregbesola inflicted on the state while in office.

The governor in a statement issued by his spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed also alleged that the former minister left ‘a legacy of huge state debt, half salary, scam tablets and several fanciful, inflated, uncompleted  projects’ while describing his tenure as ‘the worst in the history of the state’.

‘The empty boast of Mr Aregbesola about 2026 is a symptom of a troubled mind who sees wrong vision, who is battling his benefactor and who is haunted by the pains and suffering he inflicted on millions of Osun people through his evil policies and programmes. A man who should be remorseful and tender public apologies for his years of maladministration has the audacity to threaten Governor Adeleke who is cleaning up the mess he left behind after his eight years of anti-people, and  thoughtless leadership.

Mr Aregbesola’s wickedness against workers, public servants, and Osun people knows no bounds while he wielded state power. A man who introduced half salary, misapplied contributory state pension fund and misused state cooperative deductions fund should be ashamed of his temerity to attack a governor who is now paying up the half salary affliction, clearing the unjustified debt and rehabilitating brutalised Osun workers.

The Adeleke administration has paid 28 months out of the half salary left behind by Mr Aregbesola. The present administration has paid close to 60 billion naira in pension debt, a legacy of this same Aregbesola. Pensioners and workers generally are not praying for a return to the evil days of a bad administrator who left his state in ruin after eight years’ the statement said.

The governor also asserted that he has performed creditably well and surpassed Aregbesola’s achievements while noting that no one in the state is ready to return to the dark days.

‘Within less than three years, Governor Adeleke has surpassed what Aregbesola did in eight years without borrowing a kobo for infrastructure projects. The current administration has reduced Osun debt left by Mr Aregbesola by 40 percent as confirmed by the Debt Management Office.

Mr Aregbesola is invited to note that Governor Adeleke has constructed about 200 Kilometers of roads, rehabilitated over 200 schools and health centers,  placed over 30, 000 pensioners on free health insurance care, provided critical medical surgeries to over 60,000 Osun residents, Completed several abandoned projects at Osun State University, made University of Ilesa a reality among several others.

If Mr Aregbesola is to accuse Governor Adeleke of non-performance, we await his review of the dualisation of palace to brewery junction at Ilesa which he failed to achieve while in office. He should check out the flyover projects at Ile Ife and Osogbo and the dualisation projects ongoing in Iwo among others. 

Osun people know their present and past Governors. Our people are smart enough to know that the worst era for Osun state is that of Mr Aregbesola under who many pensioners lost their lives, thousands of lives were disrupted, and the state plunged into unsustainable debt that is still hurting the state till date. No voter in Osun is ready for a return to the dark days.

We therefore dismiss Mr Aregbesola’s boast as a blurry vision of another world other than Osun where Governor Adeleke has received accolades and awards for delivering on good governance and where Osun people have appreciated the local content policy, the non-borrowing policy, and the people’s first style of the current governor.

Mr Aregbesola is a shrew (Asin ti o mo pe ohun unrun) who does not know that he is smelling. 2026 is a payback time when Osun people will punish the former governor and his new party for willfully inflicting pains and suffering on Osun people throughout his eight years rule’ the statement added-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 08035023079,  08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com.  Thank you