By Tunde Olamilekan
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has demanded the immediate release of over ₦130 billion in statutory allocations allegedly withheld from the state’s local governments by the federal government.
Adeleke warned that the continued blockade is crippling grassroots governance and inflicting hardship on workers and residents.
He stated this in a statewide broadcast on Monday, noting that the continued occupation of local government secretariats by the council officials elected under the All Progressives Congress was illegal.
The governor said, “The court removed them, not my administration,” stressing that fresh local government elections were conducted in compliance with subsisting court orders, leading to the swearing-in of duly elected chairmen and councillors on February 23, 2025.
He described the current occupants of the secretariats as impostors acting without any lawful mandate.
He further alleged that local government workers who attempted to resume duty were harassed and intimidated by armed police officers and political thugs.
On the withheld allocation, Adeleke disclosed that since February 2025, statutory allocations due to Osun local governments, now totalling about ₦130 billion, have not been released to the legal accounts of the councils.
“Governance is about humanity, responsibility, and compassion, but this burden cannot continue indefinitely,” he said.
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