The Peoples Democratic Party, Osun State chapter has condemned the ruling party in the State for being dishonest and evasive in response to the allegation of looting levelled against it by Senator Nurudeen Ademola Adeleke.
In a release made available to AMILOADED Media by the state chairman of the party, Hon. Olasoji Adagunodo, the party said it is unfortunate that the APC was full of pretence and it was common sense that the mandate being enjoyed by APC today is a stolen one and the worst form of corruption anywhere in the world is electoral fraud.
“If APC wants to deny being a looting political party, we should start from the stolen mandate in Osun state today.
“To start with, we will like to challenge the APC and His Excellency Governor Gboyega Oyetola to give the people the debt profile of Osun state as at today, in relation to various failed projects embarked upon by the APC administration under which he served as Chief of Staff with regards to the followings:
(1) Ido-Osun International Airport that has gulped up to N16 billion Naira
(2) FAILED ROAD PROJECTS
(a) The 29 kilometers Gbongan/Akoda road which was awarded at billions of Naira out of which only about six kilometers were partially completed, leaving about 23 kilometers unattended to;
(b) Osogbo/Ikirun/Ilaodo boundary roads also abandoned;
(c) Osogbo Ring Road project which was also abandoned.
(3) The O-Reap failed project that was launched with about N2 billion Naira but went into extinction. It will be recalled that PDP exposed the fraud inherent in the so-called agricultural project O-Rice when Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola fraudulently posed with a private owner of a rice plantation, claiming it was Osun state project but his lies were punctured when the owner of the farm debunked the APC lies in the media after PDP exposed the fraud.
(4) Failed Market Projects:
(a) Dagbolu Market launched with N6 billion has failed and is now better referred to as a jungle or thick forrest while all structures erected there have collapsed;
(b) Ayegbaju Market at Ogo-Oluwa was initially said to be an international market but has failed because it is now an ordinary market.
(4)OPON IMO AND O-TECH
(a) Osun people will not forget in a hurry the N8 billion Naira failed Opon-Imo Project which was awarded to Kabiru Aregbesola the first son of the former governor under APC government;
(b) O-TECH: This is another unpalatable fraudulent project which the APC government initiated with promises to import Chinese technology and experts into Ilesa to produce various types of handsets. That’s another failed project that needs explanations from APC;
(c) Igi Iye Project was launched with N2 billion Naira and was monitored by Mr. Bola Ilori,an indigene of Ondo state.
“There are several failed projects used to loot Osun state treasury by APC administration such as O-RAM, O-RAMP, O-REAP, O-UNIFORM, OLAJOKUN PARK which gulped N6 billions of Naira with designs of Hotels and resorts that never happened or existed.
D. TRAILER PARK project was also initiated but didn’t see the light of the day.
(5) CONSULTANCY SERVICE was one of the biggest drain pipes employed by APC to siphon Osun money under the guise of increasing Internally Generated Revenue.The cost of maintaining the consultants on project and others is even higher than the IGR itself.
(6) LOCAL GOVERNMENT FUNDS: We are not ignorant of the reckless abandon with which the local government funds were manipulated by the APC administration.
POPULARITY CONTEST:
“We hereby challenge His Excellency Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola and APC to dare Senator Nurudeen Ademola Adeleke and PDP in a popularity contest by organizing a public treck from Olaiya junction to Oja Oba enroute station road even in the governor’s local government at Boripe and see who is more acceptable to the people of Osun state.
According to Hon. Adagunodo, “the opaque multi billion state debts incured under shady condition with shady disbursements and shady abandoned projects speak volumes in Osun.
The lack of accountability on billions of Naira from Federation Account and Paris Club Funds are other issues and these many infractions are fully documented in the court of public opinion.
“As a political party, we will not abandon our duty to monitor the government and ensure that democratic dividends are delivered to our repressed people.”
“We will not keep silent and allow the evil of the last eight years to continue.
“We will shout on rooftop for the court of public opinion and God because Nigeria is passing through an unusual time”,the statement concluded.
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