Tajudeen Lawal, the chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, has called Governor Ademola Adeleke’s attempt to substantiate contracts from his predecessor, Adegboyega Oyetola, a ruse to hide his purported misappropriation of public funds.
Lawal also characterized as diversionary the government’s decision to form an implementation panel based on a white paper on the evaluation of government contracts.
Lawal stated in a statement released on Thursday by Kola Olabisi, the party’s spokesperson, “it is funny that an administration that awarded road/flyover contract to the serving deputy speaker of the state House of Assembly without following the due process would now suddenly consider the setting up of an implementation panel of the White Paper on the Contract Review Committee.
“We wondered why it was a day after our party accused Governor Adeleke of awarding state road/flyover contracts to his brother and nephew that he (Adeleke) suddenly considered it expedient to set up an implementation committee.
“Adeleke should tread softly as Osun people are now wiser and knowledgeable enough to read the true motive of his action meant to unjustifiably victimise the opposition for having the effrontery to catalogue the series of frauds his government is perpetrating against the state in the name of prosecution of legacy projects.”
