Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has denied the allegation that he spent N4 billion on the October 20 governorship election in Ondo State, just as he said there was no vacancy in the Osun State Government House in 2014.

Aregbesola spoke at the weekend in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, while answering questions from journalists during a special interview programme tagged: “Ogbeni Till Day Break.”

He said there was no truth in the rumour that he spent N4 billion public fund in his bid to ensure that the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) governorship candidate in Ondo State, Chief Rotimi Akeredolu, won the election.

According to him, his involvement in the election did not go beyond being a member of the ACN, who desired victory for his party.

Aregbesola said: “I did not use Osun State resources to fight Ondo governorship election. If I had used Osun resources to fight Ondo election, where then did I get the resources to pay workers’ salaries in my state and still able to execute those projects?

“What I did in Ondo State is what any democrat all over the world would do. I went to Ondo State to campaign for candidate of my party and I don’t have any apology for anybody for doing that and now that the result had gone that way, I have put that behind me and I am moving forward.”

According to him, it was high time that the Labour Party (LP) in Ondo State ended its bragging season and face how to deliver the dividend of democracy to the people.

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