Ademola Adeleke, the governor of Osun State, has urged his predecessor, Adegboyega Oyetola to stop listening to Devil’s whispering on a possible return to governorship, saying God does not support electoral banditry and deceit.
Oyetola had during a welcome prayer organised for him but All Progressives Congress, APC leaders and supporters in the state capital earlier on Monday said God has promised him of return as Governor in the state.
However, Adeleke in a statement on Monday, January 2, 2023, by his spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed reminded former Governor Oyetola that there is life after losing the election, adding that Osun people have moved and are now enjoying “a new governance of openness, accountability, and responsiveness to yearnings and aspirations of the citizenry.
It reads further, “The Holy books even noted that the devil’s whispering is real and no one should mistake the voice of the devil for God. Our Almighty God has spoken resoundingly in favour of a new Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke. Mr Oyetola should better be reading ‘auzubilahi mina shaytani rajeem’ so he can hear the true voice of God – that a new leader is anointed by divine will for the Osun people.
“Osun has launched a new chapter. This new leadership has returned state power to the people who are now feeling the new air of government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Never will Osun be returned to the years of locust”.
‘Former governors go with their official cars’ – Osun Speaker Counters Adeleke
Timothy Owoeye, the speaker of Osun House of Assembly, on Wednesday, December 28, 2022, said the state law empowers governors, their deputies, and some top public officials to go with their official vehicles when they retire from office.
Owoeye made this known during plenary while reacting to the call made by Gov. Ademola Adeleke, asking the former governor Gboyega Oyetola, his deputy, cabinet members, and some public office holders who served under the previous administration, to return the official vehicles in their custody.
The speaker said, according to the State Public Office Holders (payment of pension and severance packages) Bill 2018, signed into law in 2019, the former governor is empowered to go away with his official vehicles.
He, however, invited the secretary to the state government (SSG), Mr Teslim Igbalaye, and the state chief of Staff, Mr Kasim Akinleye, to come for a holistic discussion on the matter.
“I want to call on the SSG and Chief of Staff to let us discuss this matter holistically,” the Osun speaker said.
“Apart from the fact that we have a Public Office Holders (payment of pension and severance packages) Law, that was passed in 2019, I will not say anything further until I see the SSG and Chief of Staff.
“Both of them are not summoned to appear before the Assembly but to let us come together for discussion.
“There are so many things we can settle without denting the image of anybody,” the speaker said.
Similarly, the speaker said the issue of the total debt profile of the state was being investigated by a 10-man committee of the Assembly, empowered by Sections 128 and 129 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999).
He said the sections of the constitution allow the Assembly to investigate further, the real debt profile of the state, which the Assembly initiated on December 21, 2022.
Source: Vanguard
