OSUN MOVING CLOSER TO A MAJOR BREAKDOWN- APC TELLS ADELEKE
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BY JENN NOMAMIUKOR
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has said that Governor Ademola Adeleke is leading the state in a way that causes big problems, even though the state got a lot of money from the federal government.
Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, the Director of Media and Publicity of the APC in Osun State, Kola Olabisi, said the increase in monthly statutory federal allocations designed to ease governance and spur development across states had yielded the opposite outcome in the state.
He also said the governor was using favoritism, claiming that most of the current projects and political jobs were being given to people from his hometown.
He added that even though the government under President Bola Tinubu has increased the monthly money given to all the states to help them run better and bring development that helps people, the opposite is happening in Osun State.
This is under the leadership of Governor Ademola Adeleke, who belongs to the Peoples Democratic Party, since the state government started three years ago.
“It is glaring that Osun State under Governor Adeleke has drifted steadily toward systemic failure. Local governments are effectively shut down for about a year, the judiciary is crippled by the prolonged strike action and citizens are left without essential democratic, legal and social services,” Olabisi said.
“For instance, Governor Adeleke has redefined governance in the state through blatant favouritism and nepotism by concentrating about 90 per cent of these poorly executed development projects in his hometown and appointing more than half of political office holders from his family and community. This is evident in the widely observed ‘Edenisation’ agenda of the government, where sensitive appointments are dominated by the governor’s kinsmen and women.
“In its entirety, the three-year administration of Governor Adeleke has been disastrous for Osun State. It has succeeded in retarding development and setting the state back by at least five decades, a setback that will require a genuinely progressive and performance-driven leadership to reverse.”
Meanwhile, a leader from the party, Sunday Akere, mentioned that most of the governor’s advisors will give him a low rating. He explained that Adeleke is running the state with only two branches of government. He said, “60 percent of Adeleke’s cabinet and appointees will give him a low score for his third year in office. Under the PDP-led government, Osun has started moving towards major problems.“
“The Adeleke administration governs with only two arms of government, in clear violation of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), which mandates separation of powers and functional local institutions. The absence of these structures signifies that the state is not merely underperforming—it is failing.”
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