The Presidency has declared that Rauf Aregbesola was a failure as a Governor and Minister when he occupied the two offices, who did not undertake any honest self-reflection on his own record in public office.
Penpushing reports that the Presidency made the declaration in response to Aregesola who while delivering his address at the African Democratic Congress (ADC) national convention held in Abuja described the Renewed Hope Agenda of the Tinubu administration as a scam.
The former Governor and chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) equally asked President Bola Tinubu, his erstwhile political ally, to step down for allegedly failing to deliver on his electoral promises.
Penpushing reports that Presidential spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, dismissing Aregbesola’s attack said his eight years as governor of Osun State were characterised by unmitigated hardship for the people.
The statement added that during Aregbesola’s four years as minister, obtaining a Nigerian passport became a nightmarish process, while there were 15 major attacks on correctional facilities in Jos, Abolongo, Imo, Kabba, and Okitipupa, resulting in over 4,000 inmates escaping to join criminal elements.
“Ordinarily, having made such a promise and failed woefully, an honest president should simply step down and not seek re-election. Rather, what we are witnessing is the most desperate attempt by a candidate in Nigerian electoral history to retain power at all costs, even if it means bringing down the entire democratic system,” he said.
“This is the same man who now has the effrontery to attack the Tinubu administration, despite his tenure in Osun leaving a legacy of unpaid salaries, financial recklessness, abandoned projects, and misguided policies that brought the state to ruin’, the statement read.
“His immediate successor, Governor Adegboyega Oyetola, worked hard to clean up much of the mess left behind, and Governor Adeleke is still dealing with the consequences’, Onanuga wrote.
‘My attention has been drawn to Rauf Aregbesola’s attack on the Tinubu administration at today’s illegal elective convention of the ADC—a party of desperados and power mongers who, to date, have not articulated any credible plan for Nigeria’.
‘At the event, Aregbesola reportedly called on his former boss, mentor, and benefactor to resign, parroting the opposition’s warped narratives about the economy and orchestrated reports of terrorist attacks in some parts of the country’.
‘Unfortunately, Aregbesola did not undertake any honest self-reflection on his own record in public office—as governor or as Minister of Interior. His eight years as governor of Osun State were characterised by unmitigated hardship for the people’.
‘Under his half-baked socialist policies, civil servants went unpaid for months, and those who were paid received only a fraction of their salaries. It is to Aregbesola’s infamy that Osun became known as a state receiving negative federal allocation and paying just 20 to 30 per cent of normal salaries. It was worse for pensioners in Aregbesola’s Osun State. Many pensioners who relied on their meagre monthly payments died because they were not paid at all’.
‘This is the same man who now has the effrontery to attack the Tinubu administration, despite his tenure in Osun leaving a legacy of unpaid salaries, financial recklessness, abandoned projects, and misguided policies that brought the state to ruin. His immediate successor, Governor Adegboyega Oyetola, worked hard to clean up much of the mess left behind, and Governor Adeleke is still dealing with the consequences’.
Penpushing further reports that the statement equally described the African Democratic Congress (ADC) as a party of desperados and power mongers who, to date, have not articulated any credible plan for Nigeria.
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