The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun State has accused the state governor, Ademola Adeleke of fraudulently taking undeserved credit for the road projects done by the combined administrations of Rauf Aregbesola and Adegboyega Oyetola in order to deceive the people of the state and beyond.
The APC’s allegation is coming on the heels of the recent road commissioning by the Ademola Adeleke administration on Wednesday as part of its second year anniversary in office.
DAILY POST reported that the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde on the invitation of Governor Adeleke commissioned the Stadium-Testing Ground-Oke-Baale-Ilesa-Garage section of the Osogbo Ring Road on Wednesday.
At the commissioning, Governor Makinde threw his weight behind the second term ambition of Governor Adeleke, assuring that the APC will not be able to take Oyo and Osun States away from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
However, the Osun APC in a statement by Kola Olabisi, it’s Director of Media and Information, lamented that the road was commissioned without alluding to the fact that Adeleke’s administration had only 20 per cent intervention on the said road project, while his predecessors effected 80 per cent of the commissioned road contract.
The party said, “Based on his unenviable antecedents, we are not surprised that Governor Adeleke could go to the despicable length of fraudulently claiming the executor of the projects of his predecessors which could be likened to a brazen ignominious act of stealing dirty during the daylight.
“Our surprise as a party at the untoward development on the dubious road commissioning saga was the complicity of Governor Makinde who is a qualified Electrical Engineer, blessed with the administration of a populous state like Oyo for six years running not to have discovered that his Osun State counterpart invited him to commission an uncompleted project.
“The original design of the road was to be in two layers but surprisingly, only binder course was done on the commissioned road, while there is nothing to show that the wearing course of it has been done as contained in the road design which automatically qualified it for an uncompleted project .
“It is important for Governor Makinde to investigate the nature and history of any project he is invited to commission, especially by Governor Adeleke in future so that his plight would not be like that of former President Olusegun Obasanjo who was brought to Osun State last week for the commissioning of about two kilometres of Lameco-Old Garage Road which several portions of it are already in the state of disrepair.
“We challenge the Osun State Governor Adeleke to prove to the whole world that his administration did 250 kilometres of light-up within the two years of his government contrary to what he told Makinde as the information available to us showed that what the government under Adeleke had done is within the range of only 20 kilometres of light-up.
“We sympathize with Governor Makinde over his pledge to assist his counterpart return to the Bola Ige House in 2026 as Governor Adeleke knows where the shoe pinches and he is supposedly endowed to differentiate from an impossible Utopia and reality of the mere political statement credited to the Oyo State governor which is as good as Dead On Delivery.”
It also revealed that the Aregbesola and Oyetola administrations had paid the sum of N15 billion, leaving a balance of N3 billion for total completion of the road, which included complete overlaying to wearing course.
“The attempt of Governor Adeleke to obliterate the eventful four-year administration of former Governor Oyetola, now Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, will be an effort in futility as the history of the state cannot be whole without giving the workaholic and financial engineer his proper place. Recall that the Oyetola administration paid N97billion of Osun debt without borrowing.
“The earlier Governor Adeleke desists from incubating another fellow’s egg, the better it would be for his wobbled and rudderless administration which is largely being run by impulse rather than diligent planning,” the party added.
