APC Scribes, Governor Adeleke Disagree Over N400 Million Domestic Expenses

National Secretary of All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr Ajibola Basiru, and Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke are in disagreement over the amount of money spent on domestic expenses.

Basiru at a meeting with APC members in the state capital, disclosed that the Governor, even though he resides in his elder sister’s house, allegedly allocates a monthly expenditure of N400 million for domestic affairs.

He said: “The governor is living in his sister’s house in Ede, he refused to move to the government house in Osogbo, yet, they spend N400million every month on domestic runnings.

“It is crystal clear that he (Governor) does not understand how government is run, there are a lot of leakages in government now. The people must start asking them about the money meant for palliative that the federal government released to the state”.

Reacting Governor Adeleke, through his spokesperson Olawale Rasheed, said that the statement attributed to the APC national scribe was “defamatory and reprehensible”.

“There is no iota of truth in the careless and ill-thought-out statement as the Governor is not drawing any domestic running cost from the government coffers. It is a shameful concoction from a troubled mind who is still bitter about his electoral loss.

“As a man of due process, the Governor operates within the bounds of public finance regulations. He forgoes the usual security vote as a deliberate demonstration of his readiness for selfless service to the Osun people. We take strong exception to an intentional fabrication of lies against a Governor whose popularity and performance rating are above eighty-five percent.

“We affirm that Governor Adeleke is transparently running Osun state and is not drawing any domestic running cost as condemn-ably asserted by the APC Chieftain”, the statement reads partly.

Kanyi Daily recalls that Following the suspension of the Rector of the Osun State Polytechnic, D.rTajudeen Odetayo by Ademola Adeleke, the Iree chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic protested the action.