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In this interview with TOBA ADEDEJI, Oluremi Omowaiye, the spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Campaign Council, speaks on why the Osun electorate should reject Governor Adeleke’s re-election bid.

What is the level of your preparedness for August 15, 2026?

Preparation is in top gear. We are reaching out to voters, and they have realised Governor Adeleke duped them during his first term. The reception has been wonderful. We are flagging off our campaign officially tomorrow (Thursday). Every member of our party is a canvasser. AMBO is doing his own, his deputy is doing his own, and his wife is doing her own. We all have a lot to campaign with. One obvious thing is that Governor Adeleke has clearly failed, so that has made the campaign easy for us.

How has the governor failed?

To be sincere, he has failed in all aspects. I will start with the airport. We have an airport in Osun; it is historic. Previous governors spent a lot on it. Adeleke came one day and said he was going to cancel it — he wanted another airport with the world’s longest runway, at 5.6 kilometres. He awarded it at N99.5 billion to an interior decorator. As if that was not enough, he increased the contract value from N99.5 billion to N130 billion.

You are a journalist: if you renovate a school at N50 million each, N130 billion divided by N50 million gives you 2,600 schools. That amount would renovate all the schools in Ondo, Ekiti and Osun states. But Adeleke wants to spend it on an airport to achieve the longest runway in his hometown.

How much has been spent on the airport project so far?

I can’t say precisely, because three successive governors have done significant work on the project. I am sure the three governors spent at least N100 billion. Before Oyetola left, he brought in the Air Force to build an aviation city, and they built many facilities on the land — if you see what they have done at Ido-Osun.

Coming to education: teachers were sacked, and our school infrastructure is in a terrible state. In the entire Atakunmosa East, we have 84 schools and just 97 teachers. Our state-owned universities are the most expensive in Nigeria, charging N1.5 million. The educational system is upside down.

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On health, we are afraid. For a state that used to thrive in health care, go to the state hospital at Asubiaro — you will shake your head. The National Primary Health Care Development Agency issued a damning rating a few weeks ago: Osun ranked 35th out of 36.

But the governor has built three flyovers and constructed over 400 kilometres of roads…

He has not done 400 kilometres of roads. The annoying thing about Adeleke’s government is that Oyetola revitalised many primary care centres, and they were functional before we left. But because Adeleke sacked doctors, many of those centres are now empty. That is one reason we have the second-highest number of abandoned primary care centres in Nigeria.

You build a road today; the next day, it rains, and it is washed away — is that construction? Many of those projects are substandard because they were given to companies without capacity. The Ila township road was awarded to a clearing and forwarding agency; a flyover at Lameko to an estate agent; the Iwo township road to an interior decorator. Adeleke is awarding a flyover to a fertiliser supplier. It is insulting!

Adeleke’s infrastructural drive is one-sided; the projects are in Ede. The five roads linking Ede have been dualised. Meanwhile, the roads linking Osogbo are in a terrible state, as are those linking Ilesa, Ile-Ife, and other big towns.

We have challenged him on several occasions: he has taken over N1 trillion — what can he show for it? Nothing! He simply wanted to embezzle through infrastructure.

Do you think you will defeat him at the poll?

Absolutely! I can bet with anybody: AMBO will defeat Adeleke hands down.

But his SSG said Adeleke would win by over 100,000 votes?

The SSG is saying that because of his position. How will he campaign for the people of Osogbo when all the roads leading to his town are in a terrible state, the health care system is poor, and no market has been touched by Governor Adeleke? The governor has spent N92 billion dining and wining, mainly in the governor’s office. The SSG is saying this to impress his paymaster.

One of the prides of Osogbo is OSBC. The television station has been grounded, and yet you say you want to campaign. How will they campaign when substandard projects are all over the place? Go and look at the Oke-Fia flyover: it has not even been commissioned, yet it is failing. We saw structural defects.

People are not stupid. Forget all this blabbing — people know the truth. Oyetola took the Dagbolu Dry Sea Port to about 85 per cent completion, but it has been abandoned. Imagine the number of jobs that dry port would have created for the people of Osun.

When we were in government, we repaired the state hospitals in Osogbo; we built 120-bed wards, doctors’ quarters and many more. Now, you sacked doctors, and you think those who face the consequences of your ill-administration will vote for you? No!

But there are allegations of violence and vote-buying hanging over your party…

That is the plan of Adeleke and his party, Accord. In the violence that has been happening, we are the ones at the receiving end. I am shocked when I see the government going on air to claim they are being attacked. It is the governor who is harbouring wanted thugs in the Government House. If you ask them what they have done, they will abuse and hurl insults at us.

Adeleke is seeking re-election to milk more of Osun’s resources for family gain. Contracts were awarded to the Deputy Speaker’s company and to other family allies. Adeleke drafted Amotekun to man his brother’s power plant in Ondo State.

The governor and his family, who are controlling him, have nothing significant to offer. They are doing everything to benefit their family and themselves. Oyetola left about 35 ambulances, but today we have only seven left.

The only thing they know how to do is embezzle, but the PROSPER manifesto of Asiwaju Bola Munirudeen Oyebamiji will restore the glory of Osun State, which Adeleke destroyed within four years.

Adeleke is popular for dancing 🩰🪩🩰 . That's what got him into power in the first place. Dance and governance are not the same thing.

Imagine Domperignon abusing igbos because they sell spare parts in their 2x2 shops

Meanwhile, he sells Fanta and sprite in his single kiosk

Where is he seff 😏

So you that don't want to milk Osun why are you killing people up and down denting Mr President party's name ...He wants to milk yet you can see visible projects, biko if that is how he is milking Osun then Milking means value addition , if we look at the context of the word in Mr Bwala word's.

He wants to milk the state but there are evidence his family has been running this state with their money after the FG witheld their LG funds... How people dey mumu like this?

Davinity:
He wants to milk the state but there are evidence his family has been running this state with their money after the FG witheld their LG funds... How people dey mumu like this?

Adeleke don't have a legal right to sack elected local government chairmen. He did not appoint them they are elected executives. Governor adeleke don't have respect for the rule of law.
So until the dispute is settled.... there's no way

That's how the olodo in aso rock want second term to finish up Nigeria kpatakpata

lexylaw09:
In this interview with TOBA ADEDEJI, Oluremi Omowaiye, the spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Campaign Council, speaks on why the Osun electorate should reject Governor Adeleke’s re-election bid.

What is the level of your preparedness for August 15, 2026?

Preparation is in top gear. We are reaching out to voters, and they have realised Governor Adeleke duped them during his first term. The reception has been wonderful. We are flagging off our campaign officially tomorrow (Thursday). Every member of our party is a canvasser. AMBO is doing his own, his deputy is doing his own, and his wife is doing her own. We all have a lot to campaign with. One obvious thing is that Governor Adeleke has clearly failed, so that has made the campaign easy for us.

How has the governor failed?

To be sincere, he has failed in all aspects. I will start with the airport. We have an airport in Osun; it is historic. Previous governors spent a lot on it. Adeleke came one day and said he was going to cancel it — he wanted another airport with the world’s longest runway, at 5.6 kilometres. He awarded it at N99.5 billion to an interior decorator. As if that was not enough, he increased the contract value from N99.5 billion to N130 billion.

You are a journalist: if you renovate a school at N50 million each, N130 billion divided by N50 million gives you 2,600 schools. That amount would renovate all the schools in Ondo, Ekiti and Osun states. But Adeleke wants to spend it on an airport to achieve the longest runway in his hometown.

How much has been spent on the airport project so far?

I can’t say precisely, because three successive governors have done significant work on the project. I am sure the three governors spent at least N100 billion. Before Oyetola left, he brought in the Air Force to build an aviation city, and they built many facilities on the land — if you see what they have done at Ido-Osun.

Coming to education: teachers were sacked, and our school infrastructure is in a terrible state. In the entire Atakunmosa East, we have 84 schools and just 97 teachers. Our state-owned universities are the most expensive in Nigeria, charging N1.5 million. The educational system is upside down.

Read Also: Akume faults Makinde over Oriire abduction, says politics took priority over rescue

On health, we are afraid. For a state that used to thrive in health care, go to the state hospital at Asubiaro — you will shake your head. The National Primary Health Care Development Agency issued a damning rating a few weeks ago: Osun ranked 35th out of 36.

But the governor has built three flyovers and constructed over 400 kilometres of roads…

He has not done 400 kilometres of roads. The annoying thing about Adeleke’s government is that Oyetola revitalised many primary care centres, and they were functional before we left. But because Adeleke sacked doctors, many of those centres are now empty. That is one reason we have the second-highest number of abandoned primary care centres in Nigeria.

You build a road today; the next day, it rains, and it is washed away — is that construction? Many of those projects are substandard because they were given to companies without capacity. The Ila township road was awarded to a clearing and forwarding agency; a flyover at Lameko to an estate agent; the Iwo township road to an interior decorator. Adeleke is awarding a flyover to a fertiliser supplier. It is insulting!

Adeleke’s infrastructural drive is one-sided; the projects are in Ede. The five roads linking Ede have been dualised. Meanwhile, the roads linking Osogbo are in a terrible state, as are those linking Ilesa, Ile-Ife, and other big towns.

We have challenged him on several occasions: he has taken over N1 trillion — what can he show for it? Nothing! He simply wanted to embezzle through infrastructure.

Do you think you will defeat him at the poll?

Absolutely! I can bet with anybody: AMBO will defeat Adeleke hands down.

But his SSG said Adeleke would win by over 100,000 votes?

The SSG is saying that because of his position. How will he campaign for the people of Osogbo when all the roads leading to his town are in a terrible state, the health care system is poor, and no market has been touched by Governor Adeleke? The governor has spent N92 billion dining and wining, mainly in the governor’s office. The SSG is saying this to impress his paymaster.

One of the prides of Osogbo is OSBC. The television station has been grounded, and yet you say you want to campaign. How will they campaign when substandard projects are all over the place? Go and look at the Oke-Fia flyover: it has not even been commissioned, yet it is failing. We saw structural defects.

People are not stupid. Forget all this blabbing — people know the truth. Oyetola took the Dagbolu Dry Sea Port to about 85 per cent completion, but it has been abandoned. Imagine the number of jobs that dry port would have created for the people of Osun.

When we were in government, we repaired the state hospitals in Osogbo; we built 120-bed wards, doctors’ quarters and many more. Now, you sacked doctors, and you think those who face the consequences of your ill-administration will vote for you? No!

But there are allegations of violence and vote-buying hanging over your party…

That is the plan of Adeleke and his party, Accord. In the violence that has been happening, we are the ones at the receiving end. I am shocked when I see the government going on air to claim they are being attacked. It is the governor who is harbouring wanted thugs in the Government House. If you ask them what they have done, they will abuse and hurl insults at us.

Adeleke is seeking re-election to milk more of Osun’s resources for family gain. Contracts were awarded to the Deputy Speaker’s company and to other family allies. Adeleke drafted Amotekun to man his brother’s power plant in Ondo State.

The governor and his family, who are controlling him, have nothing significant to offer. They are doing everything to benefit their family and themselves. Oyetola left about 35 ambulances, but today we have only seven left.

The only thing they know how to do is embezzle, but the PROSPER manifesto of Asiwaju Bola Munirudeen Oyebamiji will restore the glory of Osun State, which Adeleke destroyed within four years.

Says an ardent Tinubu supporter.

They think everyone is like their tin god.

Adeleke should be voted out so APC can come back to loot the state dry?

Clown.

lexylaw09:
Adeleke don't have a legal right to sack elected local government chairmen. He did not appoint them they are elected executives. Governor adeleke don't have respect for the rule of law.
So until the dispute is settled.... there's no way

The federal government has no right to impose APC members on the governor at local government level in a state that is clearly controlled by other party just to undermine him.

We do not all have to be in the same party to enjoy good governance.

Other parties should be allowed to thrive or people will resort to self help.

Davinity:
The federal government has no right to impose APC members on the governor at local government level in a state that is clearly controlled by other party just to undermine him.

We do not all have to be in the same party to enjoy good governance.

Other parties should be allowed to thrive or people will resort to self help.

local government chairmen are executives elected by the people not the governor.
So the governor can't sack them period. Only the people can vote them out says the rule of law