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2025: Oyo APC Faults Gov Makinde’s N679bn Budget Proposal

by Remi Adebayo and Leadership News
9 months ago
in Politics
Oyo State governor, Engr Seyi Makinde

Oyo State governor, Engr Seyi Makinde

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The Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has faulted the N679billion 2025 budget proposal presented to the State House of Assembly, describing it as a another fictitious document prepared to further enrich a few individuals within the corridor of power.

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APC alleged that as in the past since 2019 when he took over the reins of government, Governor Makinde “has turned the state into his personal estate.”

Governor Makinde on Wednesday presented an estimate of N679billion to the State House of Assembly for legislative approval.

However, the opposition APC said the appropriation document was far from being a ‘Budget of Economic Stabilisation’ as christened by the governor.

A statement to LEADERSHIP on Thursday in Ibadan by its Publicity Secretary, Olawale Sadare, Oyo APC described the presentation as “just a ceremony aimed at fulfilling all righteousness as Gov. Makinde did not carry any of the relevant stakeholders along in its preparation.”

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The APC also alleged that the governor would not make use of the Appropriation Bill upon its passage by the lawmakers.

“Experts have had reasons to ask questions on the values which annual budgetary rituals have added to the socio-economic and infrastructural development of Oyo State in the last five years.

“Apparently, they are aware of the abracadabra which the governor does with the management of the finances of the state without any recourse to public opinion, due process and the need for accountability.

“As far as Oyo APC is concerned, the claim by Gov. Makinde that the 2025 Budget Proposal had the input of the people of the state is false even as we challenge him to come out clean on the specific projects which would gulp the 51 per center of the total N679billion.

“Also, we have expected him (Makinde) to quote the exact period which workers should expect the commencement of the payment of the N80,000 minimum wage which he announced recently as well as the monthly total of the state wage bill to justify the amount quoted as recurrent expenditure in the 2025 Budget,” the APC said.

The opposition party added, “Gov. Makinde claimed 70 per cent successful implementation of the N515billion budget for 2024 but we do not know the parameters he used to score himself.

“In the health sector of the state, residents live under the fear of Lassa fever, cholera, small pox among others while the personnel in our understaffed public hospitals groan on account of poor condition of service. But for the World Bank which bankrolls Ibadan Urban Flood Management Projects, the whole of the state capital (Ibadan) would have been washed away by flood and erosion.”

Sadare added, “The administration of Gov. Makinde woke up suddenly few weeks ago and signed N41billion as contract sum for the upgrade of the airport in Alakia. While the idea was a good one, it was not contained in the 2024 Budget and there is no record of due process followed in the award of that contract.

“The Adamasingba stadium renovation which gulped N5.2billion was another fraud perpetrated by the PDP administration of Engr. Makinde. Years after the release of the full contract sum, basic facilities in that stadium such as swimming pool, training pitch, toilets etc are no where to be found.

“Sad enough, Gov. Makinde recently revealed that he had wasted huge sums of money on two or three occasions in the last five years to fix some inner roads in Ibadan only to realise that what those roads required was total reconstruction.

“The much advertised Iseyin-Fapote-Ogbomoso Road inaugurated few months ago has been limited to the use of light cars and motorcycles only and we all know what informed this decision.

“The whole world would not be surprised to hear about Gov. Makinde awarding contact for the linking of Eleyele and Asejire rivers together to produce an ocean in Ibadan since his administration must siphon money through fictitious projects.” APC said.


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