APC, Adeleke exchange words over UNIOSUN growth
…You lied, Adeleke is committed to UNIOSUN growth – Osun Govt tackles APC
The All Progressives Congress and the Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke has exchanged words over the state of the Osun State University.
In a statement by the Osun State Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Oluomo Kolapo Alimi, the Governor said that UNIOSUN was left in a shambolic and ruinous position by the APC administration to the point that it had no capital project or meaningful interventions over the years, which obviously weighed negatively on the growth of the institution, until his intervention.
The Osun State Government lambasted the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state for the misconceived notion on the running of the state owned institution, Osun State University, (UNIOSUN), saying the rudderless opposition cannot pretend to be what it is not.
The Government noted with disgust the mischief that the position of the Osun APC on UNIOSUN clearly portrayed, recalling the huge neglect that education sector, particularly UNIOSUN suffered throughout the ruinous years of the APC led administration in Osun state.
“We are using this medium to quickly cast the mind of the general public to the open admission of the Vice Chancellor of UNIOSUN, Professor Clement Odunayo, on the intervention of the Adeleke administration in the institution, resulting in the completion of many impactful projects for the university community within a short period of time.
“With this open acknowledgement of no less a person than the Uniosun Vice Chancellor, we are particularly irked and benumbed by the toothless APC misgiving regarding this citadel of learning as it invested no dime in it since 2010.
“The only visible infrastructures in UNIOSUN were either those erected at the point of commencement or those solely sponsored by the TETFUND.
“Yet, the APC that made no contribution whatsoever in that school is accusing the Adeleke administration of taking steps that would have negative bearing on the institution.
“The public is already in the know that APC as a political party is composed of nothing but irredentism that no right thinking person should take serious.
“We want to, therefore, affirm the commitment of the Adeleke administration to giving the needed support, not just to UNIOSUN, but all other public institutions owned by the state. We also want to assure the general public, particularly the good people of Osun state, that this administration will not trade their interests as the APC did in the case of LAUTECH University and still not account for whatever come from such ignoble act,” the Governor said.
Meanwhile, the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in a statement issued by the party’s Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi, in Osogbo, the state capital, said it reliably gathered that “the Adeleke administration has dealt a deadly blow on the state government-owned institution by cutting the annual subvention to the university by more than 60 per cent.”
“Information also lends credence to a disclosure that the Osun State under Governor Adeleke intends to use the drastic cut from the subvention of UNIOSUN to run his office.”
In his remark on the development, the Osun State chairman of the APC, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal stated it would be dangerous for the PDP-led government in the state to willingly play the role of a destructive engineer on the thriving UNIOSUN.
The Osun State APC chairman observed that it was disheartening that the Adeleke government only paid just N1.9billion of the total N5.4billion budgeted for the institution.
He asked Governor Adeleke to justify his humongous allocations of N6.5billion for his food and entertainment and N3.6billion for renovation of his office and other mundane items created for his enjoyment and ego-boosting.
