Stop running your Govt. with subterfuge, illegalities, Osun APC tells Gov. Adeleke
By Deborah Oladejo, Osogbo
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has accused Governor Ademola Adeleke of engaging in subterfuge and illegalities to run his administration.
The Chairman of the party, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, was reacting to the controversial extension of the statutory tenure of the state Accountant-General, Mr Rasheed Alabi, contrary to the Public Service Rules (PSR), in a statement issued by the party’s Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi on Tuesday.
Lawal stated that it was worrisome that Adeleke has been running his administration by impulse rather than by the provisions of regulations and laws.
He asked the civil servants if they needed to dissipate their energy on frivolities before they came to terms with a submission that the Governor is their number one enemy in the state.
The state APC chairman explained that the aspiration of any civil servant is to get to the pinnacle of his career, saying that this has been bungled following the illegal retention of the state Accountant-General and the Head of Service, Mr. Leye Aina, who had attained the mandatory retirement age of 60 years but was given three years extension by the Governor.
He queried why Adeleke is riding rough shod on the civil servants with his inhuman policies by engaging in skullduggery and jiggery-pokery to drive his government.
The APC chairman further observed that the mantra of Adeleke being civil servant-friendly is a ruse designed to confuse and deceive the civil servants as no worker-friendly governor will impede their career progression with utter impunity.
His words: “Are Governor Adeleke and his handlers saying that there are no other qualified officers who could replace the state Accountant-General upon his retirement?
“If not that fraudulent activities in the government are the inseparable binding factors between Governor Adeleke and the Accountant-General, there is no justifiable reason under the sun why Alabi should not abide by the PSR and bow out of service honourably when he will attain the mandatory retirement age on March 14th, 2024.
“Does it not occur to Governor Adeleke that if the top is blocked, no movement of any kind can happen to the bottom and the middle?
“Those who are thinking for this government, a government that has arrested the development of the state and bringing it back by two decades, should cover their faces in shame as history, definitely, will not be kind to them”, Lawal posited.
The Osun State APC chairman also wondered why Governor Adeleke has decided to jettison the PSR 020908 which stipulates the mandatory retirement age of the civil servants as attainment of 60 years of age or 35 years in the service as the case may be with the exemption of judicial officers and members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, among others.
The Accountant General, was appointed by former Governor Gboyega Oyetola(now Minister of Marine and Blue Economy), on May 21st, 2022, he is due for retirement on March 14th, 2024 when he will be attaining the mandatory retirement age of 60 years.
