APC tackles Osun gov over Adeleke’s N1bn church donation
On Saturday, the Osun State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress stated that it disagreed with Governor Ademola Adeleke and his siblings' donation of N1 billion to the Cherubim and Seraphim Church in Lagos.The party claimed that the donation came at a time when Osun was on the verge of bankruptcy.
According to Olawale Rasheed, spokesman for Osun State Governor, Dr Adedeji Adeleke, the governor's elder brother, announced a N1 billion donation to the Centenary Endowment Fund of the Cherubim and Seraphim Church during a church service in Lagos.
The Osun APC, in a statement signed by the party's chairman, Mr. Tajudeen Lawal, obtained by our correspondent in Osogbo, stated that the donation had "generated a lot of furore among both the lowly and highly placed members of the society, questioning the rationale behind such squandering of the questionable resources by Governor Adeleke and his siblings at a time when many pressing government obligations are crying for monetary attention in the state."
Lawal further commented on the donation, saying that donating such a large sum of money for frivolities was morally wrong.
Lawal stated that, while his party, the APC, was not opposed to religious groups being supported by individuals or groups of people, such support should have been done with the utmost decency.
"It would not be an exaggeration to say that Governor Adeleke used scarce Osun State funds to make a mega donation in memory of his mother in a Lagos church."
"While we consider it needless to comment on the overburdened queer manner of the governor's comportment in public, which is at variance with his exalted position as number one citizen in Osun State, Governor Adeleke would save us the collective shame of wriggling his frame at the striking of two objects, just the way he did at the Cherubim and Seraphim Church where he went on his donation spree at a time when he is yet to state any convincing statement on the N70,000.00
In response, the governor's spokesman stated that the N1 billion donation to the church was made by Dr. Deji Adeleke and had no connection or source with the state government, adding that Governor Adeleke did not donate the said amount.
Rasheed went on to say that the APC and its handlers have run out of ideas, so they have resorted to "barefaced lies and fake news on an event globally live streamed and a donation personally made by the billionaire father of a billionaire, Dr. Deji Adeleke."
He went on to say, "Let us all remember that during the COVID crisis, Dr Adeleke made significant donations to the state government under the Oyetola administration." Was Governor Adeleke in office back then? Dr Adeleke also made significant contributions to the Federal Government during the Covid crisis. Was Governor Adeleke in charge of the Osun treasury then?"
"Neither the state government nor the governor of Lagos made a donation at the event. The only donation came from Dr Adeleke, who is more than capable of doing so, having previously done so for APC governments when Mr Oyetola and Muhammadu Buhari were in office.
"Previously, the opposition, taken aback by the engineering community's widespread endorsement of Osun infrastructure projects, disparaged the highly professional and credible COREN/NSE team. Meanwhile, NSE had carried out similar exercises in the APC states of Lagos and Ogun. "Isn't the state APC hallucinating?"
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