The Adeleke Campaign Organisation says Osun people are fully aware of Mr Bola Oyebamiji’s sordid past from investment agency, finance commissionership to waterway parastatal, submitting that no amount of propaganda can clean up the unelectable candidate of the All Progressives Congress(APC).
The organisation while responding to a statement from the Oyebamiji group said Osun people are living witnesses to Ambo leading role in the half salary saga, the sale of Osun shares at Omoluabi bank, the mismanagement of Osun assets in Lagos and Abuja, the non-payment of pension debt, the almost a thousand waterways deaths while Oyebamiji was the head of the national waterway agency among others.
“We have been flaunting Governor Adeleke’s achievements across major towns in Osun state and across the sectors. Osun people saw in real time what their money was expended on from roads to bridges to water facilities to stadium to cooperative financing, to agriculture mechanisation to school and health sector upgrade.
“We again raised the following 30 accountability questions for Mr Oyebamiji to answer:
- As head of OSICOL, why did AMBO preside over the liquidation and sale of Osun State properties in Lagos and Abuja without transparency or due process?
- If he was acting under instruction, why did he not resign instead of implementing policies that deprived Osun of valuable public assets?
- Why were Osun’s mining investments, especially the Segilola project, managed in a way that denied the state its rightful earnings until the Adeleke administration recovered and documented Osun’s shares?
- If AMBO claims ignorance, does that not amount to an admission that he lacked the competence required as OSICOL boss?
- As Finance Commissioner, why did he authorise the transfer of Osun shares at Omoluabi to a proxy company through a questionable process?
- Why were the proceeds from that transaction paid into OSICOL’s account instead of the state treasury?
- Why does he attempt to blame predecessors despite the existence of a letter he personally signed approving the transfer?
- What explanation will he give if that signed letter is made public?
- As Finance Commissioner, why did he support half salary payments and the non-payment of pension obligations?
- Why does he continue to deny involvement when there are documents and photographs already in public circulation?
- Why did he retain Chams as payroll manager instead of implementing the World Bank-backed SIFMIS payroll system?
- Why was SIFMIS used in other areas of government finance but excluded from payroll management?
- Why did he support policies that weakened the public service through non-appointment of Permanent Secretaries, unpaid promotion allowances and anti-worker policies?
- Why did he allow the 20 million dollar World Bank health grant to become a fund allegedly shared by a few politically connected persons?
- As Chairman of the Procurement Board, why did he prevent the procurement agency from handling the health grant in line with due process?
- Why did he overrule technical officials who warned that the handling of the health grant was illegal?
- Why did he supervise a pattern of moving contracts and public spending outside Osun State, denying local businesses and workers opportunities?
- Why did he fail to reduce Osun’s debt burden when the current administration has reportedly reduced it by about 40 percent?
- Why did he politicise the procurement process and allegedly install loyalists in the procurement system?
- Why was Osun State University denied adequate funding, leading to abandoned projects and threats to accreditation?
- Why was the University of Ilesa denied proper take-off grants after its establishment?
- As head of NIWA, why did Nigeria witness over 1,000 deaths on inland waterways under his watch?
- Why did workers at NIWA reportedly celebrate his removal from office?
- Is he concerned that his emergence as a candidate has damaged his democratic credentials?
- Why does he and his supporters repeatedly boast about “federal might” instead of relying on the will of the people?
- Why did he remove “Munirudeen” from his INEC filings?
- Why did he suddenly withdraw a manifesto earlier released by his campaign?
- Why has he still not presented a final manifesto to the people of Osun?
- Why is he promoting religious division in a state known for peaceful coexistence and mutual respect?
- Given his central role in the Oyetola administration and the serious concerns surrounding his record, why should the people of Osun trust him with the governorship?
“We urge Mr Oyebamiji to be man enough to own up to his past. Osun people have moved on from the failure of the past to the present of multiple progress and achievements across the sectors and across towns and villages of our dear state”, the statement concluded.
