The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has stated that there’s no single reason why Governor Ademola Adeleke should not be shown the way out of the Okefia Government House, Osogbo, through the 15th August, 2026 governorship election.
In a statement signed by Osun APC’s Director of Media and Information, Mogaji Kola Olabisi, the party said Adeleke is not qualified to be the governor as the Constitution provides that an aspirant to the office of governor must be educated to, at least, Secondary School Certificate level.
“All Adeleke’s results and credentials are controversial and it is in the public glare that no court has ever pronounced him as educationally qualified to be the governor. All the judicial decision in this respect has just said is that his accusers have not supplied sufficient evidence against him”, the party argued.
The statement read: “One of the hallmarks of the visibly challenged administration of Governor Adeleke is its financial recklessness. On the average, the state government, under the watch of the Ede-born governor receives N11 billion as an allocation monthly. For 39 months, that is over N400 billion while surprisingly, the developmental projects on ground do not measure up to the level of income. Most of these amounts cannot even be accounted for.”
“The over three-year-old administration of Governor Adeleke is identified with the series of the acts of misgovernance and incompetence as the government is completely opaque and drifting aimlessly. None of the government functionaries can tell you what is happening in the government. No one knows the cost of any of the Adeleke government window dressing projects except the Adeleke family members. No one knows who is executing any project except the Adeleke family members.
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“The Adeleke exhibition of the culture of lawlessness is legendary as the governor is fond of disobeying the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court judgements in the local government cases. Many chieftaincy cases in courts were swept aside by the Adeleke spurious, unpopular and wicked executive orders. Awo, Igbajo, Ikirun, Iree etc are the points of references to this anomaly.
“Since over three years ago, strange practices in government: unprecedented acts that cannot be seen anywhere else have been the order of the day. The bungled wild attempts to remove the state Chief Judge, Justice Adepele Ojo from office, instigation of the local government and judicial staff to go on strike, holding of the controversial and illegal local government elections that produced purported winners without results have been acts of extreme national embarrassment to date.
“Governor Adeleke has also been a source of embarrassment to the state through his ridiculous public dances at various serious occasions where the exhibition of the use of intellect would have been required to prove the mettle of his worth of leadership attributes.
“Indeed, education is not a scam and the Nigerian Constitution is intelligent enough when it requires a minimum level of education for anyone to occupy such an exalted office.
“It would go down in the political history of the state that Governor Adeleke, since the creation of the state, will remain the only governor who is fond of dumping his budget, year in, year out, on the state House of Assembly without having the acumen to speak to the document he is laying before the House.
“It is disheartening that at the twilight of his imminent exit from the Government House, the embattled Governor Adeleke has not thought it desirable or wise to make habitable the state Assembly Complex, the roofing of which he removed since the early days of his government.
“It is only in Osun State out of the other comity of states in Nigeria today that the state lawmakers are living in expensive hotels scattered in Osogbo, the state capital, at the expense of the resources of the state, subsequently denying the rubber stamp lawmakers the opportunity of being together in their official quarters for serious meetings preceding robust proceedings in the House.
“Apart from concentrating the developmental projects on Ede, his home town, where all the five roads leading to the ancient town have either been dualised or undergoing speedy dualisation process, at the expense of the other 28 local government council areas in the state, almost all the juicy ministries, parastatals, government establishments in the state are being manned by Ede natives either as a commissioner, Special Adviser, Permanent Secretaries, Heads of the government-owned tertiary institutions, uncountable Senior Special Assistants etc.”
The All Progressives Party alleged that Governor Adeleke has continued with his usual game of nepotism whereby he has been riding roughshod on the innocent people of the state by pungently insulting their sensibilities in his recent shabby recruitment of teachers into the public primary and second schools in the state.
“Investigation revealed that out of the 876 teachers purportedly recruited as alleged, Adeleke rapaciously gave 88 slots to Ede, comprising only two local government councils while the remaining 28 local government council areas and the Area Office with the headquarters in Modakeke were made to share the remaining 791 slots. Out of the 38 Education Officers recruited, a whole six slots went to Ede alone.
“According to the recruitment list published by Governor Adeleke, 48 slots of the teachers went to Ede-South Local Government Council Area; 40 slots were avariciously given to Ede-North, making 88 for Ede town alone.
“Adeleke allocated 32 slots for Ife-East out of which only 11 slots were allocated to the Area Office in Modakeke; 23 slots for Ife-Central and parsimoniously allocated 24 slots for Osogbo, the state capital, and a paltry, despicable and nauseating 26 slots for Olorunda Local Government Council Area.
“Further information gathered revealed that not up to the 40 per cent of the teacher-applicants who purchased forms and took part in the rigorous interview tests for the employment were considered as the highest percentage of the 914 recruited teachers and Education Officers were given as patronising slots to some of the privileged political functionaries, government officials and political parties of the PDP and Accord Party extractions in the state.
“For instance, it was reliably learnt that the state governor allegedly appropriated five slots for himself officially while four went to the deputy governor; State Accord chairman, four slots; principal members of the state House of Assembly, two slots each; members of the House of Assembly, one slot each; state PDP chairman, four slots; PDP local government chairmen, one slot each and Accord Party local government chairmen, one slot each while the sit-at-home purported local government council chairmen coasted home with one slot each.
“The Chief of Staff, the Secretary to the State Government and the Head of Service were also said to have benefited handsomely in the allocations of the recruited teachers while the only Senator in the party was given one slot with one slot each for the House of Representatives members of the Accord Party extraction. The Tescom chairman and his counterpart in SUBEB were said to have enjoyed three slots each; all the commissioners, two slots each; board members, one slot each.
“It was also gathered that the scripted list of the recruited teachers by Governor Adeleke is more like the more you look, the less you see as the local government of origins of quite a number of the natives of Ede who also made the list have to be changed to other local government councils based on an instruction from above in order to avert the likely misgivings from the members of the public from the short-changed local government council areas.”
The APC condemned the modality for the teachers’ recruitment exercise which it rated as a “millennium sham apparently carried out by the Governor Adeleke-led administration mainly to rob, during the daylight the children and wards of the downtrodden masses of the golden accessibility for employment opportunities in Osun State having dispossessed them of their monies with which they purchased employment forms over two years ago.”
