Osun State Government Carpets opposition Party APC As Cheap Blackmailers.

• Says Allegations on Financial State of Osun Jaundiced, Myopic, Baseless

OSOGBO/ 31/12/2024
osunstate.gov.ng

The attention of the Osun State Government has been drawn to a purported End of the Year Media talk; titled “Disclose true financial situation of Osun, APC lampoons Adeleke’s government” circulating in both conventional and non conventional media outlets in recent times.

Notwithstanding the fact that the so called media talk was organised by those whose imagination of how a government is being run can best be described as shortsighted, jaundiced and myopic, the need to give a rebuttal to such beer parlour talk becomes imperative at this time, in order to once again set the record straight.

Doing so, would as a matter of fact insulate members of the public from being misled and misguided by such unbridled beer parlor talks by shameless opposition party members in the state.

One of the issues raised in the so called beer parlour media talk was the NG-CARES, which had earlier been cleared many times by the administration of Senator Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke by stating that the Subsidiary Loan Agreement (SLA) was signed by the administration of former Governor Adegboyega Oyetola with billions of naira accessed by the same government before Oyetola and his government left the Bola Ige Government House on 26th of November, 2022.

With all sense of modesty and responsibility, it therefore cut short of ones imagination, which of course, might have been borne out of the ill informed and intellectual laziness displayed by the so called people who address the baseless press conference.

A press statement issued by Osun State Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Oluomo Kolapo Alimi and released to the press alluded to the fact that, all that was needed from the jobless opposition members in the state was just to place a phone call to the former Governor Oyetola, instead of playing roadside politics with the benefits the people of Osun are daily enjoying from the CARES programme of Adeleke led government .

Alimi who also threw more insights into the issue of the alleged conversion of $20m using exchange rate of N1,650 to a dollar, reiterated that it is another crass display of lack of knowledge on how modern governance operates, going by the spurious allegations raised during the said press conference.

He states inter alia “The CARES intervention is a Programme for Results (PforR) which simply means, the government must use its treasury resources for implementation, then World Bank will send an independent assessor to the State to check the claim of achievements before reimbursement is done to the State using a prevailing exchange rate at the time.

“Aside that, the programme is still ongoing, the claim of $20m being accessed so far is then from the garrulous and filthy imaginations of the opposition charlatans in the state, which at best is to be thrown to the garbage of time.

“The issue of NG-CARES Additional Financing is an ongoing process between the Federal Government and the World Bank which is an addendum to the original CARES signed by the former Governor which is even yet to be floated by the world Bank/Federal Government.

“While Osun State Government sees all these as a load of unwarranted noise anchored on jaundiced assumption, it must be emphasized for the umpteenth times for the knowledge and education of the opposition members particularly the masterminds of that beer parlour press conspiracy that the Imole Osun led administration of Senator Ademola Adeleke did not, has not and will not, borrow a dime to run it’s populist oriented style of governance, hence the need for opposition party in Osun State to thread softly and do things with decorum instead of being daily preoccupied with uncharitable and unwarranted shenanigans of bringing down the daily increasing popularity and acceptability of Governor Ademola Adeleke” ended the press statement.

E Signed
Oluomo Kolapo Alimi,
Hon. Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment.