Gov Adeleke now worries because of Edo election result — Osun APC

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun State has declared that the result of the Edo State gubernatorial election won by Senator Monday Okpeboloh is causing worries in the camp of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state.

This is as the Osun APC hailed the outcome of last Saturday’s Edo State governorship election.

Newspot recalled that the APC candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo, emerged victorious in the Edo State gubernatorial election with 291,664 votes, where he defeated Asue Ighodalo of PDP, who garnered 247,274 votes and Olumide Akpata of the Labour Party, LP, who came a distant third with 22,763 votes.

The party, in a statement signed by Kola Olabisi, the Osun APC Director of Media and Information on Thursday in Osogbo, said the Edo APC victory has become a cause for Governor Ademola Adeleke to become uncomfortable, as there is no political malfeasance that the outgoing Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, has committed that his counterpart in Osun State is not guilty of.

The party alleged that immediately after the Supreme Court gave Governor Ademola a victory in 2023, he turned himself into a democratic dictator, dishing out orders to haunt his political foes within his party and in the leading opposition APC in the state.

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The party also accused Governor Adeleke of making illegal policy statements and causing tension across the length and breadth of the state.

The statement said: “It was right at the inauguration of his government that Governor Adeleke started his missteps of governance by coming up with obnoxious executive orders to begin the infamy and opprobrium of his government, which has negatively affected his administration beyond redemption to date.

“It would be recalled that one of the unpopular executive orders rolled out by Adeleke was the sack of the teachers, OYES Cadets and health workers, numbering thousands employed by his predecessor, which have resulted in the pungent shortage of manpower in some sensitive sectors in the state.

“The Adeleke Executive Order that plummeted his popularity among his admirers was the shabby treatment that he gave to the traditional rulers in the state by unjustifiably sacking three of them who were duly nominated, properly enthroned and loved by their subjects. The Owa of Igbajoland, Oba Gboyega Famodun III, the Aree of Iree and the Akinrun of Ikirun are the direct victims of the Adeleke misgovernance.

“The traditional rulers whom the nation’s constitution put under the superintendent of the governor are taking the usual development as an absurdity viewed and taken hook, line and sinker in the principle that an injury to one is an injury to all.”

Osun APC also maintained that there is no restitution that Governor Adeleke can make at this point in the history of the state that can ameliorate the incurable damage that he has caused to the traditional institution in the state.

While accusing Governor Adeleke of being against transparency, probity and accountability in government, the party added that he is embarking on the misplaced priority of construction of five flyovers in the state where the citizenry can hardly feed themselves.

The party also said between January and June 2024, Governor Adeleke had drawn N684 million for security services, adding that “the unresolved issue of the 114 tractors that the governor claimed to have purchased while the brazen lie came into the open when only 31 tractors whose whereabouts remain unknown today were sighted for only a road show recently in Osogbo.

The statement added: “If Governor Adeleke thinks that the unresolved issue of the 55 primary health care centres that he effected while flaunting 332; borehole scandal; cornering of the Federal Government food items palliatives sent to the state; and the misappropriation of the Federal Government grant meant for purchase of buses for the people of the state have been forgotten, he is making a big mistake as the day of reckoning is fast approaching.”