The Osun State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the embattled state Governor Ademola Adeleke of running a profligate administration involving over N90 billion in his first 100 days in office.
APC’s allegation against the governor came, even as the opposition party charged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) to probe the governor.
It would be recalled that Adeleke had laid claim to accountability and probity as the fulcrum of his administration during the inauguration of his government on November 27, 2022.
The Acting Chairman of the Osun State chapter 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 on Tuesday, accused Adeleke of gross mismanagement of the accrued funds to the state.
“Adeleke through one of his obnoxious and unpopular executive orders, had stated that he had frozen all the government accounts but to the chagrin of the discerning minds in the state and beyond, he has been spending government funds lavishly and frivolously on government projects without necessarily reversing his earlier order on the government accounts”.
The APC also accused Adeleke of fraudulently claiming the sole executor of some of his predecessor’s projects that had been done up to over 70 per cent completion to mark his one hundred days in the office.
Lawal cautioned Adeleke to stop “rabble rousing in government and be ready to account for any money he might have spent without due process on the day of reckoning which is knocking.”
The APC Acting chairman disclosed that if the people of the state have the detailed knowledge of the various funds that have accrued into the coffer of the government within the last 100 days and compare same with his so-called achievements, he may either be stoned or pelted.
According to Lawal, governor Adeleke would justify his claim to accountability and probity only if he could give an account of the funds that accrued to the state coffers in the last 100 days:
Lawal listed the funds, which included the N11 billion from Siftas; N5 billion from NG CARES; N6.7 billion Federal Government parastatal tax liability; N3.2 billion Nigeria for women project; N4.9 billion State Ease of Doing Business Reforms and the N14 billion left in the State coffers by the Oyetola administration.
“Others are N4billion IGR November 2022, December 2022, January & February 2023; November 2022 FAAC allocation after deduction N6.37billion; December 2022 FAAC allocation after deduction N6.93billion and January 2023 FAAC allocation after deduction N5.34 billion.
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke
“Below is the summary of the Osun Local Government allocations within the last 100 days of Senator Ademola Adeleke:
“November 2022 FAAC allocation after deduction N6.2billion; December 2022 FAAC allocation after deduction N4.8 billion; January 2023 FAAC allocation after deduction N5.7 billion; First tranche of Sure P left by Oyetola administration N3.5 billion; Second tranch of Sure P N2.6 billion.”
“The breakdown of the public funds that Adeleke needs to account for in the last 100 days of his administration, according to the APC, are: N67.44 billion revenue to the state; N22.8 billion revenue to the local governments.
“The total amount of the revenue excluding February 2023 allocation that is hanging on the neck of Adeleke is N90.24 billion,” APC said.
Besides the aforementioned allegations, the opposition party also accused governor Adeleke of lack of transparency in the award of boreholes contracts in the 332 wards accross the state at a cost of N14 million each.
“The fact check on the Adeleke borehole contract revealed that it was a scam meant to fleece the state as the borehole contract was given out for N2 million per one, while the remaining N12 million on each of the boreholes was pocketed by Adeleke.”
“It is on record that while Oyetola was paying the salaries of the government workers in full and as when due, he also offset N97 billion of the inherited debt even when he was getting negative and zero allocations.”
Lawal described Adeleke’s incursion into the political history of the state as a monumental failure which “has set the progress of the state back by decades”, adding that such humongous funds that governor Adeleke has been squandering was the product of the transparency award that Oyetola received while in office.
The APC Chieftain, therefore, tasked both the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) to urgently beam their searchlight on the Osun finances under the embattled Governor Adeleke in order to halt the looting spree.
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