The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has reacted strongly to President Bola Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila’s recent remark praising Governor Ademola Adeleke’s administration as doing a “phenomenal job.”
In a statement signed by APC’s Director of Media and Information, Mogaji Kola Olabisi, on Wednesday, the party described the assessment as “borne out of insufficient information.”
The APC claimed that the state government deliberately kept Gbajabiamila away from critical stakeholders who could have provided a more accurate picture of the state’s development.
According to Olabisi, “If the stakeholders had been allowed to interact with the Chief of Staff, we are confident the blunt Gbajabiamila would have called Governor Ademola Adeleke what he really is: a big and fantastic failure.”
The party cited several issues with Adeleke’s administration, including the failure to replace over 1500 teachers, hundreds of health workers, and 20,000 OYES cadets sacked by the governor.
“Almost three years after Governor Adeleke sacked these workers, he has failed to replace them, thus creating chaos in key economic sectors in the state,” Olabisi stated.
The APC also highlighted the state’s deteriorating education system and substandard road construction projects.
“A popular media outfit in the state, Rave FM, ran unfettered reports and documentaries of how education has become shambles and deteriorating under the propagandist government of Adeleke,” the statement read.
Olabisi questioned how Adeleke’s administration could be considered “phenomenal” when it has spent N55 billion on lifestyle expenses but failed to employ a single teacher in public schools.
“Would it be correct to adjudge a governor who spent N55 billion to eat, drink and maintain his expensive life style, but could not employ a single teacher into the public primary and secondary schools in almost three years, after swindling the job applicants with their hard-earned money in the name of application fees, as doing a ‘phenomenal job’?
“Is it possible for a governor who is doing a ‘phenomenal job’ to shut down all the local government council areas in the state for over three months running over his refusal to have respect for the rule of law in the case of the reinstated APC council chairmen and councillors?”
He also pointed to the shutdown of local government council areas for over three months due to the governor’s refusal to respect court rulings.
“A governor who brazenly insults the judiciary and cherry-picks the rulings of the court cannot be said to be phenomenal,” Olabisi concluded.
