The
present government in Osun State led by Senator Ademola Nurudeen Jackson
Adeleke has been accused of squandering the states’s collective patrimony
belonging to the local government areas in Osun State. At a press conference
organized by the former chairmen of local governments in the State from the APC
platform held in Osogbo the State capital on Saturday, Hon. Owoeye Samuel
Abiodun (OSA) who was the former Chairman of Obokun East LCDA who spoke on
behalf of the Chairmen said that Adeleke’s administration has squandered over
N183 billion federal allocation to the 30 LG’s in Osun State between November
2022 and November 2024. The former Executive Chairmen; who were elected in 2022
under the All Progressives Congress accused the state government of abusing the
1999 constitution by withholding and spending the federal allocation that
accrued to the local government areas of Osun State. “We are deeply concerned
by the flagrant abuse and disregard to the judicial pronouncement of the
highest court in the land by the state government” Owoeye said. According to
him, “We all recall that on 11th July, 2024, in suit no: SC/CV/343/2024, the
Supreme Court in its landmark judgment, forbade state governments in the
country from tampering with LG’s allocations. This untoward behaviour of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) administration in Osun has impoverished the
people of the state, especially those at the grassroots. Speaking further, Hon.
Owoeye said “Curiously, our concern stems from the fact that the administration
has embarked on this impunity without democratically-elected local government
officials in place. This in itself is an intentional subversion of the 1999
Constitution (as amended). As law abiding citizens of Nigeria, we frown at this
unbecoming attitude of the PDP administration in the state.” All efforts to get
a response from Mr. Kolapo Alimi the state’s commissioner for information on
this matter proved abortive as at press time but an APC stalwart who spoke with
Newstrend
but craved anonymity said the APC is taking the matter to court “You won’t
believe that local governments in this State have collected the total sum of
N183,196,629,321.19,( One Hundred and Eighty-Three Billion, One Hundred and
Ninety-Six Million, Three Hundred and Twenty-One Thousand, Nineteen Kobo), from
November 2022 to November 2024 without anything to show for it, the question
is: Where is the over N183 billion received by the Ademola Adeleke Government
on behalf of our Local Government? I think our party has taken the right
decision by taking the PDP led government to court.” He concludes. Newstrend however learn that the matter has been filed at the federal high court Osogbo last Friday.
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