Midterm Assessment: Osun APC Gives Gov Ademola Adeleke Administration ‘Low Marks’, Calls For Cabinet Reshuffle

Osun State APC on Monday awarded the current administration in the state ‘low marks’ after carrying out a midterm assessment of the Governor Ademola Adeleke administration, the party also bemoaned  what it described as ‘the level of docility, colourlessness and monochromatic attitude of the commissioners making up the governor’s cabinet’.

The party added that apart from two or three statutory ones among the cabinet members, all the other ones seem to be nonexistent.

Osun State APC in a statement issued in Osogbo and made available to Team@orientactualmags.com by its Director of Media, Mr Kola Olabisi has also asked Governor Ademola Adeleke to make the total number of his aides public. 

Chie Ademola Adeleke was sworn in as governor of Osun State on November 27, 2022.

‘It is not out of order, therefore, to state that Governor Adeleke’s cabinet is overdue for dissolution in order to inject vibrant blood who could key into his self-acclaimed vision and effectively add substantial value into it in the overall interest of the development of the state.

Governor Adeleke should be courageous enough, this time around, to choose his own team rather than relying on the nominees who were donated to him by the leaders of the party on mere patronage basis without considering their  capabilities in terms of experience and qualifications which subsequently resulted in putting square pegs in square holes.

It is observed that we never had it this bad in our state as some of the commissioners are redundant and obscure, not known beyond their ubiquitous appearances at social gatherings during weekends where they have the latitude to unveil their identities by the masters of ceremonies on such occasions.

This is not the best of times for both the primary and secondary school pupils in the state who would not be able to mention offhand beyond one or two the names of the cabinet members because of the obscurity of the holders of the offices unlike what used to be in vogue.

It is observed that some of the occupiers of the offices of commissioners and Special Advisers in the administration of Governor Adeleke have turned themselves into proverbial traditional farmers who would always use hoes as farming implements for self-aggrandizement.

There cannot be any better time for Governor Adeleke to rejig his cabinet than now as a half-time in the life of any administration is not a child’s play.

Our interest in the call for dissolution issue as the major opposition party is in the overall interest of the state where no man is oppressed.

It is our wish to also know the numbers, names and offices of other appointed aides under the designations of Special Advisers without cabinet, Senior Special Assistants and Special Assistants, in order to douse the tension of the news that some of such appointees have never been to the shores of this country let alone Osun State.

It is the inalienable right of the governed to know the number and identities of the political appointees whose salaries are being paid through the public fund which is the common patrimony of the people of the state.

If the governor is too busy to attend to this request, we shall be awaiting the response from the Office of the Secretary to the State Government (SSG) which schedule entails rolling out of such letters of appointments.

The information is in the public domain that despite the unenviable position of the state with reference to economic graduation on viability basis, Osun State under Governor Adeleke parades the highest number of political aides among the comity of governors in Nigeria’ the statement 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 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com.  Thank you