In Osun State, the All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused the Ademola Adeleke administration of failing to convene a state executive meeting 54 days after the council’s inception.
It also accused the state government of incompetence and failing to keep a slew of promises made to Osun voters in the run-up to the gubernatorial election.
The Osun APC, in a statement signed by its chairman, Tajudeen Lawal, stated on Monday that since Governor Adeleke inaugurated his cabinet with fanfare on July 19, 2023, his attempt to hold the first state executive meeting was a flop.
“It is strange for a democratic state government to refuse to hold executive meetings for about two months,” according to the statement.
“Governor Adeleke’s laissez-faire approach to governance confirms that he is only interested in the glamour of the office and has no tangible plan for the State’s development.”
“Adeleke has been appropriating funds for the running of the State without holding state executive meetings.”
While saying that Governor Adeleke’s relocation of the Government House to his sister’s property in Ede was ludicrous, the Osun APC said that he has proven to be a misfit.
“It is absurd for the Governor to have relocated the Governor’s Office and Government House to his sister’s residence in Ede, where he resides ten months after his administration was inaugurated.”
“Adeleke promised to release White Papers on some of his rash decisions via his obnoxious Executive Orders, but nothing to that effect has been released to date,” he continued.
In response, the State administration, through the Governor’s Spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, declared that the Osun APC is suffering from forgetfulness.
Rasheed reported that former Governor Adegboyega Oyetola conducted his first state executive council meeting on November 4, 2019, over a year after the governorship election in 2018.
“It is thus a probable loss of memory for the state APC to accuse the current administration of either not holding or not announcing to the public the meetings of the state executive council meeting,” he says.
“As much as we are not using the previous government’s abysmal record as a yardstick, we pointed out this obvious deception and memory loss to help the public see the falsity in the badly divided state APC and the incorrigibility of the state party leadership.”
“The cabinet members have been deepening the state sectoral agenda for the past three weeks through rigorous brainstorming sessions with the establishment in preparation for an elaborate and expanded state executive council meeting.”
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