The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun State has described the recent allegations from the All Progressives Congress, APC, as a demonstration of desperation.
The party in a statement signed by its chairman, Sunday Bisi and obtained by DAILY POST on Wednesday, said:
“From the reactions and conduct of the state APC, Governor Adeleke has clearly overwhelmed the opposition and the reactive strategy of dishing out propaganda and deliberate misinformation has further reduced the opposition approval rating to below 10 percent with that of Mr Governor at super high level.
“The opposition should accept that at near mid-term, Governor Adeleke has surpassed its records of between 2018 to 2022.
“Within one and half years in office, Governor Adeleke has delivered what the former government cannot achieve in four years and within the same period, the current government has ignited massive development never contemplated in education, heath, water, infrastructure and workers welfare.
“A party which failed to pay half salary debt and pension arrears while in office is not ashamed to point accusing fingers at an Adeleke government that is clearing all those debts and uplifting the living conditions of workers and pensioners.
“Osun is proud of a Governor Adeleke who refused to draw security votes and instead directed that such funds should be channeled to the development of the state.”
Earlier, the Osun APC had in their own statement signed by its chairman, Tajudeen Lawal had accused Governor Adeleke of non-chalant attitude towards the state workers.
The Osun APC had accused Adeleke of having a nice time at the 82nd birthday party of Juju music maestro, Ebenezer Obey at a time the civil servants and pensioners in the state were yet to receive their wage award for the month of March.
In the statement, Lawal said, “there was nothing wrong in a governor honouring an illustrious Nigerian like Chief Ebenezer Obey, but the timing was most inappropriate for a mediocre governor who has not deemed it fit to discharge his statutory obligations at home, despite the increased federal allocation to the state.
“Adeleke’s singing and twerking session at the Sheraton Hotel is an executive show of shame which has diminished the rating of Osun State in the court of the public worldwide.
“Could there be a justifiable reason under the sun for a governor who could not properly account for N39.5 billion Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in 2023, series of the Federal Government palliative supports meant for the poor amounting to over N13 billion and other revenues from some donor agencies, to take to dancing and frolicking in the public?”
Your allegation of misrule by Adeleke desperate – Osun PDP knocks APC
