The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (apc“>APC) has berated the state governor, Ademola Adeleke, for running a fascist regime “where few unproductive but privileged individuals feed fat on the huge resources of the state,” tasking the governor to justify almost N1 trillion in revenue received by his government from November 2022 to September 2025.
In a statement issued and made available to TheGazetteI Nigeria yesterday in Osogbo, the state chairman of the apc“>APC, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, stressed that
“Our findings proved that the Adeleke government received N25 billion from November to December 2022; N182 billion in 2023; N333 billion in 2024, and N310 billion from January o September 2025, with little or nothing to show for it”.
In just three months, July to September 2025, the Adeleke-led administration received as a federal allocation a whopping N124 billion, representing an average of N41 billion per month (see Page 9 of the Osun State Budget Implementation Performance report published on October 28, 2025, on the state’s official website), yet the Osun State citizens are gasping for breath and survival on account of the hopeless economic policy of Governor Adeleke.
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.
Just yesterday, the students of the state university in Ilesa were on the streets of the ancient town protesting the satanic school and accommodation fees that Governor Adeleke and his puppets in the University of Ilesa have imposed on them.
“In UNILESA, the Osun State Government charges N800,000 for a room per session.”
Accommodation outside the school is not different; it is exploitative and far beyond the reach of an average student.
“If the Osun State Government does not charge students of UNILESA as much as N1.5 million per session, would the shylock landlords, who now find joy in exploiting the unsuspecting students, have the temerity and excuse to financially condition and paralyse the students?”
He said as the students in Ilesa are crying over the cutthroat school fees and arbitrary house rent, so also their counterparts atOsun State University, Osogbo, are wailing over similar Luciferian school fees.
The apc“>APC chieftain recalled that in UNIOSUN, some students pay as high as N1.5 million, excluding accommodation, which is now on the border of N600,000–N1,000,000, depending on the quality of facilities in the apartment.
According to him:
“Unfortunately, while Governor Adeleke should have settled down to address the plights of the students and the people of the state as a responsible leader would do, he is visiting different nightclubs, dancing from one state capital to another, frittering away the resources that should have been deployed to fund education“>education and other key sectors of the economy”
In Ibadan, over the weekend, Adeleke became the butt of jokes at a music concert when he was found dancing like an untamed video vixen.
The sight was a classic case of Nero ensconcing and fiddling in Antium while Rome was burning. It was a terrible scene to experience.
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 percent, budgeted for capital projects in the education“>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 percent of the estimate, was disbursed as of the end of September.
“The total disbursement for capital projects was N82 billion, barely 43 percent of the budget estimate for capital expenditure. That is 26 percent 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 its 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? “
The chairman made it clear that it was obvious that the revenue of the state is being used to service Governor Adeleke and feed the stomachs of his unproductive acolytes.
But the Osun State Government has said the assertion by the Osun chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) that Governor Ademola Adeleke has collected and squandered N1 trillion in state allocation from 2022 to date is fake news from a party that is set for another defeat in 2026.
Mallam Olawale Rasheed, a spokesperson for Governor Ademola, said that despite the state APC‘s single-digit popularity rating, the party has run out of ideas.
He claims that since 2022, Governor Adeleke has not received anything close to N1 trillion and has wisely managed state resources with the specific goal of addressing the state’s vital and critical needs in the areas of infrastructure, health, education, business financing, cooperative empowerment, sports development, agriculture, technology development, worker welfare, and pension management.
The nearly 322 kilometers of roads throughout the state, the renovations of 200 health centers, the rehabilitation of over 100 schools, the ongoing dualization of several towns, the ongoing upgrading and rehabilitation of several waterworks, the multi-billion naira local and grassroots development projects, the flyover bridges, the new tractors, and the ongoing renovation and upgrading of Osogbo stadium to a five-star standard, among other things. Only an anti-people party would deny these things.
The only party scheduled to be rejected again in 2026 will refuse to pay workers half of their salaries, which the APC neglected to do while it was in power.
Pensioners are living examples of how state funds are being used to pay off pension debt, which Governor Ademola Adeleke is liquidating after the APC refused to pay.
Even the federal government has now embraced the unprecedented policy of enrolling more than 30,000 pensioners in the state health insurance program. The Federal Debt Management Office reports that Governor Adeleke has cut the massive Osun debt stock by forty percent. He hasn’t yet borrowed a Kobo from 2022, though.
Out of selflessness, the governor is not collecting security votes and instead ensures that security expenditures are treated and processed within the approval system.
The public is also aware that since the seizure of Osun local government funds by the apc“>APC, the state government has been shouldering the financial burdens of the local governments.
This ensures that thousands of families working across sectors at the local government levels do not go hungry as intended by those who masterminded the illegal seizure of the LG fund.
Every sector is feeling the effects of the state spending. The Nigerian Union of Teachers has frequently praised Governor Adeleke for his fervent focus on the welfare, education, and maintenance of teachers. According to the NECO ranking, Osun is currently at number seven. Osun was ranked 33rd in the APC.
Several reliable infrastructure groups estimated that Osun’s infrastructure deficit was nearly 80% in 2022. The infrastructure deficit has decreased by 40% by 2025. Osun ranked first in the Southwest for primary health care access in a program run by a federal agency.
The spokesperson noted:
“Pensioners, workers, farmers, artisans, market operators and others are applauding the governor daily, we are not expecting the state apc“>APC to own up to its failures while in office but it can at least be silent to allow Osun people to enjoy good gprecedented democratic dividend”.
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