Lagbaja: Gov Adeleke Attending Gala Night During Grieving Period ‘Condemnable’-Osun APC
Osun State APC on Monday accused Governor Ademola Adeleke of flouting the directive he gave last week in respect of late General Taoreed Lagbaja.
Recall that the governor had last week Thursday directed that 3 days of mourning should be observed in the State of the Living Spring in honour of the late Chief of Army Staff .
Osun State APC in a statement issued in Osogbo by its spokesman, Mr. Kola Olabisi which was made available to Team@orientactualmags.com accused the governor of attending a gala night shortly after paying a condolence visit to the family of the late army chief in Abuja.
‘Ideally, this period is a trying time for all the indigenes of Osun State following the sudden loss of one of our illustrious sons, Lieutenant-General Taoreed Lagbaja, the Chief of Army Staff ,who hailed from Ilobu in Irepodun Local Government, whose sudden death was announced to the world on Tuesday, November 5, 2024 after a period of illness.
Governor Adeleke, as an afterthought declared a three-day mourning period on Thursday afternoon, starting from the same Thursday, November 7th to Saturday 9th, 2024, through a statement by his Commissioner for Information, Mr Kolapo Alimi, to mourn the late Chief of Army Staff, with a directive that flags must be flown at half-staff during the same period.
Sequel to much pressure from the major opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, Governor Adeleke in the company of his late elder brother’s wife that he appointed as State Commissioner for Federal Affairs, Mrs Nike Adeleke, paid a condolence visit to the widow of the departed, Mrs Mariya Lagbaja, where he promised her that the state would not abandon her and his children during their travail.
Surprisingly, a few hours after his condolence visit to the widow of the fallen COAS in the same Abuja, Governor Adeleke was seen at the gala night in commemoration of the innaguration of the multi-million naira Law Corridor in Abuja owned by one of the PDP chieftains in Osun State, Mr Pelumi Jacob Olajengbesi, Esq. where he was dancing hilariously with gregariousness to the lyric of the King of Fuji music, Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, amidst conviviality in a conversable manner in the company of the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, the Right Honourable Adewale Olumide Egbedun, the state PDP chairman, Mr Sunday Bisi, and other political functionaries of the PDP extraction in Osun State.
The post-condolence visit activities of Governor Adeleke in Abuja were indicative of the fact that he was at the late Lagbaja’s residence not to mourn genuinely but rather to feign the fulfillment of all righteousness in a manner that was devoid of display of empathy in such a tragic event.
We, as a party, would not like to make the sudden death of Lieutenant-General Taoreed Lagbaja a political issue but would not at the same time fail to point out that based on the unsavoury happenings after the condolence visit, it would not be out of tune to observe, state and conclude that Adeleke was at the late Lagbaja’s residence to shed crocodile tears which was not acceptable to us.
The dancing segment of the law office inaguration was indeed a show of shame as our own Osun State governor was wriggling his massive body, bending backward and forward in a manner suggestive that nothing untoward had happened to the state he has been governing for two years running.
Is it not funny that while Governor Adeleke directed a three-day mourning period in Osun State over the death of the Chief of Army Staff, he was digging it out with his partners in misdemeanors in far away Abuja a few kilometres to where he had gone to pay a condolence visit!
We wonder those who are thinking for Governor Adeleke to have recommended for him such a level and intensity of partying and jollification while his three-day mourning period over the death of one of our illustrious sons in the state still subsists?
There was nothing to show that Governor Adeleke meant with all intents and purposes, genuine consolation over the death of Lagbaja as he would not be dancing and wining during the three-day mourning period declared by him.
We found it illogical, disturbing and bizarre that it was when President Bola Ahmed Tinubu directed the postponement of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting till another date and subsequently ordered that flags should be flown at half-staff nationwide for seven days in honour of the departed Army General that his state governor thought it wise, appropriate and rational to engage in a wild dancing spree in Abuja’ the statement said.
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The party also sought to know ‘the efforts put up by Governor Adeleke to reach out to the fallen Chief of Army Staff as an illustrious son of his state when he fell ill before he eventually died’-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 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com. Thank you.
