..as Oyetola vows to be back, says he left N15 billion behind
By Pearlrose Eberechi
Senator Ademola Adeleke was Sunday morning sworn in as the Sixth Governor of Osun State.
Adeleke remarked in his inaugural speech that he would right the wrongs of the previous administration.
The new governor said that upon his election as governor of the state, the immediate past governor of the state,Adegboyega Oyetola immediately carried out malicious actions that constitute roadblocks to the survival of his ( Adeleke’s) administration , some of which are mass employments, and appointments without budgetary provision.
In view of this, Adeleke has ordered that
all government accounts belonging to the state government be frozen.
He also reversed the state name from ‘State of Osun’ to ‘Osun State’, saying the former was alien to the constitution.
“My Good People of Osun, since you elected me as your governor on the July 16, 2022, which the Independent National Electoral Commission announced on July 17, 2022, the former Governor, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, maliciously started putting road blocks to make things difficult and almost impossible for the new administration to serve you.
“Mass employment were carried out without budgetary provisions for salary payments for the new employees; even when the state was struggling to pay salaries and deliver other services. Various hurried and criminally backdated contracts were awarded and again without budgetary provisions.
“Appointments of several Obas were hurriedly done without following due process, just to mention a few.
“All efforts to get the governor set up a Transition Committee and submit hand-over notes in line with best practices proved abortive.
“It is therefore my desire to ask for your patience and understanding to give my administration a few weeks to review and sort out all the actions and malicious confusions which the immediate past administration has created since July 17, 2022. Those actions were indeed vindictive measures against the people of Osun State for voting them out of office,”
The governor also gave new directives
“Consequently, I hereby issue the following directives which will be backed up with appropriate Executive orders:
“Immediate freezing of all government accounts in banks and other financial institutions;
“Immediate establishment of a panel to carry out an inventory and recover all government asset.
“An immediate establishment of a panel to review all appointments and major decisions of the immediate past administration taken after July 17, 2022.
“An immediate reversal to the constitutionally recognised name of our state, ‘Osun State’. All government insignia, correspondences and signages should henceforth reflect Osun State rather than State of Osun which is unknown to the Nigerian constitution.”
Meanwhile, Oyetola has vowed to redeem what he called his stolen mandate as he said in his farewell speech ” The sun shall shine again,brighter and warmer, and the sustainable development and participatory governance that we enthroned, which local and international organizations applauded,shall be restored and put on a surer and better footing
” There can be no substitute for people – oriented and development – savvy governance in a democracy.
” The taproots of the unprecedented good governance that we introduced, which delivered massive projects and programmes, are too strong to be uprooted”
Oyetola, whose address was published on Sunday by his media aide,Ismaila Omipidan claimed to have left the sum of N14 billion behind said ” We have absolute trust in God that we shall be back soon adding We have implicit trust and confidence in the judiciary to do justice in the case before it “
