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Adeleke’s Ipade Imole: A session of surreal humour, comedy – Osun APC
The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned the state Governor Ademola Adeleke to desist from constantly being a vicious source of embarrassment to the people of the state through his actions and inactions as the state Chief executive of Osun.
According to the state chairman of the party, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, in a statement issued by the party’s Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi, in Osogbo, today, the crude way that Adeleke handled his first feedback programme in eleven months tagged ‘Ipade Imole’ yesterday was nothing but a display of the theatre of absurdity.
Lawal observed that the totality of the conduct of Governor Adeleke throughout the duration of the programme revealed that he is ill-prepared or lacks in quantum the natural endowments required to successfully govern the state.
He stated that the time-wasting Ipade Imole which ran for several hours where Adeleke talked much without substance afforded the people of the state a golden opportunity to discover that the governor is not only an expert in dancing but he is an unrivalled political comedian who trivializes serious matters affecting the state for lack of not knowing what to do, how to do it and when to do same.
The Osun State APC chairman also observed that apart from the fact that Adeleke was superfluous and empty yesterday, the whole exercise turned out to be a tirade whereby the governor was openly demanding to be clapped for by his burdened and embarrassed audience.
Lawal stated that it was a thing of shame that Governor Adeleke ended up embarrassing himself, his political party, the PDP and the people of the state as his feedback approach to questions expressly showed that he was not properly tutored by his usual chaperone, or he refused to radiate what he was taught before the programme.
He hinted that he could not blame all the radio stations but one which yanked off the programme from their stations when it became visible that the governor could not meaningfully and concisely communicate his thought.
Lawal stated that never in the history of the state has any governor had such a poor showing in public engagement.
The state APC chairman who also accused Governor Adeleke of lack of empathy, wondered why the governor was seemingly comfortable to hold such a programme amidst singing and cracking of jokes while lives of innocent souls were being cut short in the lingering communal clash between the people of Ifon-Osun and Ilobu in about five kilometres away from the venue.
In Lawal’s words: “Based on the verifiable poor scorecard of Governor Adeleke, it will not be out of tune to state that the unsuspecting people of Osun State have unwittingly entered a proverbial one chance vehicle with Adeleke on the driver’s seat.
“Adeleke and his political co-travellers could be likened to metaphorical bandits who successfully snatched a vehicle key from its rightful owner but without a required skill to start the vehicle’s engine let alone move it.
“Whatever the political firmament of the state may be today, there is a solace in the fact that it is a passing phase”, Lawal stated.
Speaker of Kwara House of Assembly, Yakubu Danladi-Salihu, on Thursday said nine bills and 20 motions were passed by the Assembly in the last one year of its 10th legislature.
The Speaker, during the first anniversary of the 10th legislature under his leadership, said eight other bills were also undergoing legislative processes.
“They are at various stages of scaling passage in the House,” he said.
The 10th legislature of the state House was inaugurated early June 2023 after a proclamation.
The bills passed in the last one year include the Kwara State Education Trust Fund (Amendment) Bill, 2023 and the Revised Appropriation (2023) Bill, 2023.
Others are the Kwara State Environmental Protection Agency (Amendment) Bill, 2023; Kwara State Local Government Electoral (Amendment) Bill, 2023; and Kwara State Rural Access Roads Agency Bill, 2023.
The remaining bills passed include the Kwara State Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (Amendment); and State Roads Fund and Administration Bill, 2023.
The rest are the Kwara State University Teaching Hospital (Establishment) Bill, 2024 and Kwara State University of Education (Establishment) Bill, 2024.
The Speaker however said the House has been enjoying a harmonious working relationship with the other arms of government in the past one year.
He added that Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq deserves appreciation for the prompt attention accorded the resolutions of the House when transmitted to him.
Danladi-Salihu noted that the governor has allowed the independence of the three arms of government to be firmly rooted in the state.
“The cordial relationship that exists among the arms of government is paying off in the state, and we the lawmakers envisage the same hand of fellowship from Gov. AbdulRazaq in subsequent legislative years,” the Speaker said.
He stated that the House also introduced new ideas into the conduct of legislative business without sacrificing the norms for innovation.
“For the record, in the first session, the 10th Assembly has as of date at the committee of the whole house considered a total number of nine landmark reports which emanated from different standing and ad-hoc committees of the House.
“These reports which generated robust debates on the floor, and on which resolutions were made in line with transparency, equity and accountability, have significantly assisted in reshaping governance in the state,” Danladi-Salihu noted.
The Senate has passed 25 out of the 447 bills introduced on its floor since the inauguration of the 10th Senate in 2023.
Senate Leader, Mr Opeyemi Bamidele, who disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday, also said that the upper chamber adopted 115 resolutions .
He said the 25 bills fully passed into law, comparatively, accounted for 5.24 per cent of the entire bills introduced within the timeframe.
According to him, aside from the 25 fully enacted pieces of legislation, no fewer than 275 bills (57.65 per cent) were read for the first time within the timeframe.
“About 135 (28.32 per cent) awaiting first reading; 45 (9.43 per cent) awaiting the second reading; 43 (9.02 per cent) currently at the committee stage and three bills (0.63 per cent) were refused on different grounds.
He added that while only 13 (2.73 per cent) of the total bills originated from the executive arm, 464 (97.27 per cent) were private member bills.
“Apart from the bills, the Senate arrived at 115 resolutions, which are far-reaching in consequence; profound in their significance to our economic development and strategic to the cohesion, growth and stability of our nation.
“Each of these resolutions arose from motions of national importance, which different distinguished senators sponsored after due diligence was conducted.” he said.
According to him, the Senate also received and treated petitions from members of the public on diverse matters of grave concern within the timeframe.
“In spite of time constraint, 50 of the public petitions were successfully and satisfactorily resolved.
“The Senate equally screened and confirmed 215 nominees for different political offices at the request of President Bola Tinubu and in accordance with Section 147 (2-6) of the 1999 Constitution and other Acts of the National Assembly.
“Among others, the confirmations include key appointments into the Federal Executive Council, Board of the Central Bank of Nigeria and the leadership of the Nigeria Armed Forces, Nigeria Police Force.
“Nigerian Immigration Service, Nigeria Customs Service, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission,” he said .
He explained that the confirmations were key to national development and speeded up the process of forming or constituting the national government at a very critical time when the economy was struggling to stay afloat.
“National security under threat and internal cohesion was seriously gasping for fresh breath.
“Already, the first year has passed by and we have decisively addressed issues of strategic national interest with utmost priority,” he said.
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