Osun Govt, APC Bicker Over State Council Meeting

Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) administration in the state as clueless and inept for its alleged inability to hold the State Executive Council (SEC) meeting 54 days after its inauguration.

But the state government quickly reminded the leading opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) that former Governor Adegboyega Oyetola held its maiden state executive council meeting on November 4, 2019, almost a year after the 2018 governorship election.

APC, in a statement yesterday by the party’s director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi, said the attempt by Governor Adeleke to hold the first state executive meeting was bungled with frivolous eschews.

Lawal noted that it is strange for a democratic state government to refuse to hold executive meetings for about two months.

Lawal said the laissez-faire approach of Governor Adeleke to governance is a confirmation that he is only attracted to the glamour of the office without having any tangible programme for the development of the state.

The state APC chairman wondered how Adeleke has been appropriating funds for the running of the state without holding the state executive meetings.

Reacting through the spokesperson to the governor, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, the government said it is 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.

“As much as we are not using the abysmal record of the previous government as a yardstick, we pointed out this obvious deceit and memory loss to further help the public to see the falsity in the badly split state APC and the incorrigibleness of the state party leadership”.

Osun State Government therefore assured members of the public that their Governor and his cabinet are working round the clock to expand delivery of democratic dividends and “correct the big mess of the recent past”.