By Tunde Olamilekan
The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the state Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, have traded words over the amount the current administration has received as federal allocations since it came on board.
The APC, in a statement by its chairman, Tajudeen Lawal, claimed that Adeleke had received almost N1 trillion in revenue from his government from November 2022 to September 2025.
However, the state governor, through his spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, denied the claim, noting that his administration had not received such an amount.
The APC said that its findings proved that the Adeleke government received “N25 billion from Nov-Dec. 2022; N182 billion in 2023; N333 billion in 2024 and N310 billion from Jan-Sept 2025, with little or nothing to show for it”.
Lawal added that in three months – July – September 2025, the Adeleke-led administration received a Federal allocation of the tune of N124 billion. He added that despite the huge sum, Osun citizens are gasping for breath and survival.
“Given the huge allocation accrued to the state in just a few months, no youth of the state deserves to be subjected to the hardship the administration has imposed upon them,” the APC chairman said.
“It is pathetic that despite the N310 billion made thus far this year, the Osun State Government has only disbursed N7.8 billion of the N27 billion, representing 29 per cent, budgeted for capital projects in the education sector in the fiscal year. Similarly, of the N5.9 billion budgeted for capital projects in the agriculture sector, merely N528 million, representing 9 per cent of the estimate, was disbursed as at the end of September.
“The total disbursement for capital projects was N82 billion, barely 43 per cent of the budget estimate for capital expenditure. That is 26 per cent of the revenue made.
“We, as a party, find it incongruous that a governor who touts himself as “Mr Project” only spent 26 per cent of his government’s revenue in 2025 on capital projects, whereas no Kobo was disbursed to settle N6 billion of the gratuity arrears estimated to be paid this year. On what, then, is people’s money being appropriated?
“It is obvious that the revenue of the state is being used to service Governor Adeleke and nurture the stomachs of his unproductive acolytes,” the statement added.
Reacting, Olawale Rasheed, the spokesperson to Governor Adeleke, described the allegations as fake news from a party that is set for another defeat in 2026.
“The opposition statement is a devilish fabrication, a mischievous propaganda, and a failed attempt to rubbish a brilliant performance of the current administration as attested to by local and international stakeholders,” Rasheed noted.
He described the APC as a party that has ran out of ideas amidst its single digit popularity rating, noting that Governor Adeleke from 2022 to date has not received anything near one trillion naira and has judiciously managed state resources with particular target of meeting the crucial and critical needs of the state in the area o health, infrastructure, education, business financing, cooperative empowerment, sports development, agriculture, technology development, workers welfare and pension management.
“Only an anti-people party will claim not to see the almost 322 kilometers of roads across the state, the 200 health centre renovations, the rehabilitation of more than 100 schools, the ongoing dualisation across several towns, the ongoing upgrading and rehabilitation of several water works, the multibillion naira local and grassroots development projects, the flyover bridges, the new tractors, the ongoing renovation and upgrading of Osogbo stadium to a five star standard among others.
“Only a party set for another rejection in 2026 will deny the payment of half salaries owed workers and which the APC failed to pay while it governed the state. Pensioners are living witnesses of how state funds are being spent to offset pension debt, which the APC refused to pay, and are being liquidated by Governor Ademola Adeleke. The enrolment of over 30, 000 pensioners in the state health insurance scheme is an unprecedented policy which even the Federal Government has now adopted.
“Governor Adeleke has reduced the humongous Osun debt stock by 40 percent according to the Federal Debt Management Office. Yet, he has not borrowed a kobo from 2022 to date. Out of selflessness, the governor is not collecting security votes and instead ensures that security expenditures are treated and processed within the approval system.
“In 2022, Osun’s infrastructure deficit was placed at close to 80 percent by several credible infra groups. In 2025, the infra deficit has been reduced by 40 percent. In South West and at a programme moderated by a Federal agency, Osun came first in the area of access to primary health care.
“Pensioners, workers, farmers, artisans, market operators, and others are applauding the governor daily. We are not expecting the state APC to own up to its failures while in office but it can at least be silent to allow Osun people to enjoy good governance and ongoing delivery of unprecedented democratic dividend”, the Spokesperson noted.
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