…As PDP defends expenditure
By Ismail Azeez, Osogbo
Following the renovation of the Osun State Government House in Abeere, Osogbo by the Governor Ademola Adeleke led administration, the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the renovation as superfluous.
The Osun State chairman of the APC, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, in a statement issued by the party’s Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi noted that the Governor has less than 33 months to continue executing what he described as “unnecessary and a mere job for the boys fraudulently executed to fleece the state of its common patrimony in Naira and Kobo”
It would be recalled that Governor Ademola Adeleke moved into the rehabilitated Government House in Osogbo, the state capital, over the weekend.
The APC accused the state Governor of being a perpetual expert in the employment of misplaced priority to run his infamous administration.
Lawal said it is a shame that Governor Adeleke could be involved in flaunting the Government House rehabilitated with N1bn in this austere period.
The state APC chairman explained that it was shocking that despite the huge revenue that came the way of the government of the state, there is little or nothing to show for it in the state in terms of physical infrastructure.
In his words: “It is a pity that while the counterparts of Governor Adeleke in other states are preoccupied with how to lessen the debilitating effects of the Federal Government removal of fuel subsidy through palliatives, the Osun State governor was busy celebrating something that cannot positively impact the people of the state.
“Anyway, we have solace in the fact that the administration of Governor Adeleke is a tenured one of four years which is having 33 more months to be flushed out of the Government House.
“We want to impress it on Governor Adeleke and his co-travellers that we, just like other discerning members of the public in Osun State, are not amused by the Adeleke N1bn rehabilitated Government House which had already been rehabilitated to taste by the immediate-past Governor Gboyega Oyetola now Minister of Marine and Blue Economy.
“The said Government House rehabilitation was a superfluity,” Lawal stated.
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), berated the Osun APC statement about the Government House renovation stating that Lawal and his faction of mourners are still grieving about the rejection of their discredited party by the Osun people.
A statement released on Monday by the media office of the ruling party and signed by the State Chairman, Hon. Sunday Bisi said Lawal has not only shown unseriousness and confusion about governance but he has also reduced his group to ‘Paperweight, Jesting Desperados,’ merely hallucinating about the steadfast running of the state by the Governor Adeleke led administration.
The statement read in part, “Lawal should tell Osun people how he came about the N1bn cost of renovation he quoted. He should be tapped out from his fallacious claim that there is nothing to show in the state in terms of physical infrastructure.
“Lawal should be reminded that the last time Osun State had a befitting infrastructural investment, like what is ongoing in the state, was under PDP administration, followed by Ogbeni Aregbesola.
“The only thing Oyetola did in his 4 years in terms of infrastructure was to give Osogbo a substandard, Mungo Park era bridge, which aggravated public anger against him and his acrimonious lieutenants. For Governor Ademola Adeleke, he is making good his promise to give the state a global standard facelift and we are glad the great of the state are right behind him to succeed.
“While the PDP government is open to constructive criticism as enshrined in a democratic society, the APC factional group is however expected to do better by engaging their thinking cap, away from frivolous ranting and wailing without borders,” Hon Sunday noted.