APC, Accord Clash Over Alleged Withholding of Osun Council Funds

The Campaign Council of the Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun State has accused Governor Ademola Adeleke of withholding critical documents required for the payment of local government workers’ salaries.

The allegation was made in a statement issued in Osogbo on Thursday by the Co-Chairman (Print), Media Committee of the AMBO Governorship Election Council, Kola Olabisi.

The council, which is backing APC candidate, Bola Oyebamiji, alleged that the governor’s actions had disrupted the smooth administration of local government affairs across the state.

It accused the governor of “personalising the local government administration,” stating that the situation had caused hardship and confusion among residents, particularly those dependent on local government salaries.

According to the statement, “It is astonishing that a governor could deliberately withdraw all the documents from the local government council areas that could enable the Court of Appeal-reinstated local government council chairmen and councillors to effectively fulfil the payment of salaries and allowances.”

The council added that the development had affected not only council workers but also auxiliary staff whose livelihoods depend on timely salary payments.

“It is worthwhile to pointedly tell Governor Adeleke that he could only run, but it would be pretty impossible for him to perpetually hide under the constitutional provision of the immunity clause,” the statement said.

The APC campaign council also questioned the rationale behind the alleged withholding of documents, describing the action as unacceptable and suggesting it could warrant serious constitutional consequences.

In response, the Osun State chapter of the Accord dismissed the allegations, describing them as unfounded and politically motivated.

The state chairman of the party, Victor Akande, said the claims were “a poorly scripted hogwash aimed at diverting public attention from monumental financial atrocities already perpetrated in the state local government system by APC political actors.”

Akande accused members of the APC of attempting to blackmail the Adeleke administration through what he described as “emotional propaganda and empty noise.”

He maintained that the people of the state deserved transparency, accountability and development, adding that any attempt to derail progress in the state would be firmly resisted.