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Osun APC accuses Gov Adeleke of financial recklessness
The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has accused the state governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke of messing up the finances of the state to the extent that his government is finding it extremely difficult to execute some of the statutory functions of the government.
According to the Osun State chairman of the APC, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, in a statement issued by the party’s Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi, in Osogbo, the state capital, the governor has ran the state aground.
Lawal said the Governor, after ten months in office is now running from pillar to post in order to find a solution to the state’s current financial quagmire .
He alleged that Adeleke squandered the N14 billion bequeathed to him by his predecessor on frivolous and unexplainable projects.
The APC claimed that it has it on record that Adeleke has not been able to account for the monthly Federal Government allocations from Abuja, other statutory incomes and the Internally Generated Revenue(IGR) in the last ten months.
The APC explained that the Osun State pensioners under the aegis of Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) who are of primary school teachers extraction have equally been complaining that they have only been paid their pension only once in the ten months of the current administration, a situation that has warranted the pensioners to schedule a massive protest in the state to press home their demand.
He said that the state union chairman, Comrade Gbenga Oyedare, had in a radio programme monitored in Osogbo recently, disclosed that “if the Adeleke administration did not devote more fund to pay up the pension arrears, there is every propensity for the government to add to the burden of the retirees.”
In Lawal’s words: “What went wrong with Governor Adeleke who promised during the governorship campaign that he was having foreign currencies in abundance?
“Could it be that Adeleke’s calendar is quite different from the one in the public domain which indicates that he exhausted 10 months of his statutory 48 months lifeline?
“In all ramifications, and as far as we are concerned in APC compared to what he met on ground, the Adeleke administration is a monumental failure. The government is being run by a person who does not understand the rudiments of governance and he should be described as a visionless leader motivated only by the glamour and peck of office of the governor”
“If Adeleke does not lack empathy, there is no reason under the sun why he should still be keeping the Federal Government N2 billion fuel subsidy removal palliative since two months running when other states which are lucky to have caring governments have started to benefit from the largesse.”
Thr AP C further alleged that if the PDP government led by Adeleke and his team have not squandered the N2 billion Federal Government fuel subsidy removal palliative they should have distributed it, “or they are earnestly waiting to line their pockets with the accrued interest in the bank?”
He continued: “It is saddening that when some states have been complimenting the efforts of the Federal Government by providing their own palliatives for their people, Adeleke has chosen to hoard the one for the people of Osun State for the reasons which could only be known to him and his co-travellers.
“Governance of a state is neither for the lily-livered, weaklings nor an inexperienced human being with no verifiable work history.
“Governor Adeleke should explain without further delay why his administration can no longer remit deductions from the workers’ salaries to appropriate places as and when due.
“The kick-and-start governor should state why remittances of check-off dues to the labour unions and co-operative societies are in arrears?
“Why have the offices of the newly-created ministries not taken off and why the commissioners and the Special Advisers attached to these ministries sre still operating from their staff quarters?
“The members of the public also deserve the right to know why all the heads and sub-heads in the 2023 budget have fully been exhausted on frivolous overhead charges.” the Osun State APC chairman demanded.