The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State differed over the performance of the state government under the leadership of Governor Ademola Adeleke.
APC in a release made available to newsmen in Osogbo by the state chairman, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal accused Adeleke of running his administration by impulse due to alleged incompetency.
The statement that was made available by the party’s director of media and information, Chief Kola Olabisi, contended that it is only during the military dispensation that the government was ran haphazardly the way Governor Adeleke is handling the governance of the state.
Lawal wondered why Governor Adeleke has refused to hearken to the voices of the people of the state irrespective of their political leanings by distributing to all and sundry the Federal Government’s fuel subsidy palliatives in grains, rice and cash.
He said he could not see any reason why the governor could not keep to his promise of holding state executive meetings on Wednesdays as what are now in vogue in Osun State today are the holding of make-believe state executive meetings without the creation of a pedestal for the commissioners and special advisers to engage in robust sessions of meetings on how to move the state forward.
However, PDP described APC statement as “a demonstration of desperation, disappointment and depression at the superlative performance of Governor Ademola Adeleke, leading to blind fabrication of fake news, false figures and outright lying.
The ruling party in its reaction by the state chairman, Hon. Sunday Bisi noted that accusations against the Adeleke administration were littered with falsehood and barely disguised anger at great developments in Osun State and advised the opposition to toe the path of honour by conceding defeat even before the 2026 election.
The chairman noted that from the reactions and conduct of the state APC, Governor Adeleke has clearly overwhelmed the opposition and that the reactive strategy of dishing out propaganda and deliberate misinformation has further reduced the opposition approval rating to below 10 percent with that of Mr Governor at super high level.
Th posited that across Osun state and in all the sectors, Governor Adeleke is making significant impact which is acknowledged by residents and non-residents and which has earned the Governor many unsolicited awards from several reputable media and non-governmental platforms, urging the opposition to accept that at near mid-term, Governor Adeleke has surpassed its records of between 2018 to 2022.