Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has fired again at former Governor Rauf Aregbesola, warning that indigenes and residents of the state haven’t forgotten the hardship related together with his time in workplace.
Reacting to Aregbesola’s declare that his new celebration, the Motion Democratic Congress (ADC), would unseat the present administration in 2026, Adeleke described the previous governor’s file as “the worst in Osun historical past.”
Via his spokesperson, Rasheed Olawale, on Monday, July 14, Governor Adeleke mentioned, “2026 is a payback time when Osun individuals will punish the previous Governor and his new celebration for wilfully inflicting pains and struggling on Osun individuals all through his eight years administration.”
He mentioned Aregbesola must be apologising for the years of hardship below his management, not making political threats.
“The empty boast of Mr Aregbesola about 2026 is a symptom of a troubled thoughts who sees mistaken imaginative and prescient, who’s battling his benefactor and who’s haunted by the pains and struggling he inflicted on hundreds of thousands of Osun individuals by his evil insurance policies and programmes,” Olawale said.
“A person who must be remorseful and tender public apologies for his years of maladministration has the audacity to threaten Governor Adeleke, who’s clearing the mess he left behind after his eight years of anti-people, inconsiderate management.”
Olawale pointed to Adeleke’s efforts to scrub up the {financial} mess left by Aregbesola, together with the fee of wage and pension arrears.
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“The Adeleke administration has paid 28 months out of the half wage left behind by Mr Aregbesola and near ₦60 billion in pension debt, a legacy of this identical Aregbesola,” he mentioned.
Taking a swipe at Aregbesola’s infrastructure file, the assertion challenged him to evaluate Adeleke’s achievements.
“If Mr Aregbesola is to accuse Governor Adeleke of non-performance, we await his evaluate of the dualization of palace to brewery junction at Ilesa which he failed to attain whereas in workplace.
“He ought to try the flyover tasks at Ile Ife and Osogbo and the dualization tasks ongoing at Iwo amongst others,” Olawale mentioned.
He concluded by insisting that Osun voters haven’t forgotten the hardship below Aregbesola.
“Our individuals are sensible sufficient to know that the worst period for Osun State is that of Mr Aregbesola, below whom many pensioners misplaced their lives, 1000’s of lives had been disrupted, and the state plunged into unsustainable debt that’s nonetheless hurting the state until date. No voter in Osun is prepared for a return to the darkish days,” the assertion added.
