Adeleke condemns Aregbesola over 2026 governorship threat

 

Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke has berated the National Secretary of African Democratic Congress (ADC), Rauf Aregbesola, over his comment to unseat him in 2026 governorship election fixed for August 8.

The Nation reports that Aregbesola, who is an ex-governor of Osun State and former Interior Minister, during his homecoming on Sunday, faulted Adeleke’s style of governance and vowed that ADC would unseat him in 2026.

Adeleke, reacting to comments of the ADC national secretary, described Aregbesola’s administration as the worst in Osun history, which was characterised by half salary, uncompleted projects, education tablets (Opon Imo) scam, among others.

The governor, in a statement through his spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, noted that ‘’Osun State residents are still suffering from the inhumane maladministration he inflicted on the state while in office.’’

According to him, “a man who left a legacy of huge state debt, half salary, scam learning tablets (Opon Imo) and several fanciful, inflated, uncompleted projects.

“The empty boast of Mr Aregbesola about 2026 is a symptom of a troubled mind, who sees wrong vision, who is battling his benefactor and who is haunted by the pains and suffering he inflicted on millions of Osun people through his evil policies and programmes. A man who should be remorseful and tender public apologies for his years of maladministration has the audacity to threaten Governor Adeleke, who is clearing the mess he left behind after his eight years of anti-people, thoughtless leadership.

“Mr Aregbesola’s wickedness against workers, public servants and Osun people knows no bounds while he wielded state power. A man who introduced half salary, misapplied contributory state pension fund and misused state cooperative deductions fund should be ashamed of his temerity to attack a governor who is now paying up the half salary affliction, clearing the unjustified debt and rehabilitating brutalised Osun workers.”

He said: “The Adeleke administration has paid 28 months out of the half salary left behind by Mr Aregbesola. The current administration has paid close to N60billion in pension debt, a legacy of this same Aregbesola. ‘’Pensioners and workers generally are not praying for a return to the evil days of a bad administrator, who left his state in ruin after eight years.”