The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has disagreed with Femi Gbajabiamila, the Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, on his commendation to Osun State governor Ademola Adeleke over governance in the state.
Adeleke’s spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, in a statement on Tuesday, disclosed that Gbajabiamila had praised Adeleke and his team members for doing “a phenomenal job.”
The former Speaker of the House of Representatives reportedly gave the commendation while speaking at the Government House in Osogbo before he delivered a lecture at Osun State University.
According to Rasheed, Gbajabiamila said Adeleke has prioritised governance over politics in his dealings with the Federal Government.
“I must say that you and members of your team are doing a phenomenal job in the state and on the national pedestal,” Gbajabiamila was quoted as saying.
Reacting, APC in the state, through its Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi, said Gbajabiamila’s remarks were caused by his lack of sufficient information on the happenings in the government circle in Osun.
“We would like to assert that the CoS’s remark stating that Governor Adeleke is doing a ‘phenomenal job’ in the state was borne out of Hon Gbajabiamila’s insufficient information on the true position of governance in Osun State,” Olabisi argued.
Insinuating that Adeleke might have blocked Gbajabiamila from getting to meet with his party members in the state (APC) among other stakeholders in Osun who might have “laid before the former Speaker, true development in the state,” Olabisi further claimed, “Information available to us confirms that the bumbling government of Senator Ademola Adeleke, in its usual characteristics to mislead its guest to earn undeserving honour, had kept the president’s aide away from meeting critical stakeholders who would have appropriately laid before the visiting politician the true state of development in the state.”
“If the stakeholders had been allowed to interact with the Chief of Staff, we are confident the blunt Gbajabiamila would have called Governor Ademola Adeleke what he really is: a big and fantastic failure.
“A session with Osun stakeholders would have offered the governor’s guest from the Presidency the opportunity to know that almost three years after Governor Adeleke sacked 1,500 teachers, several hundreds of health workers and 20,000 OYES cadets employed by his predecessor, the dancing-governor has failed to replace them, thus creating chaos in key economic sectors in the state.
“The stories are all over the town about how distraught parents, whose children’s education risked compromise on account of a lack of teachers in our schools, cried out for assistance in the media.”
