Why Adeleke Should Account For Osun's ₦1 Trillion

PRESS STATEMENT.                (11TH NOVEMBER 2025)

- APC Tackles Governor Over Waste, Neglect Of Education

....Says "Charging N1.5M In Public Schools Is Satanic, Arbitrary"

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has berated Senator Ademola Adeleke of running a fascist regime, where few unproductive but privileged individuals feed fat on the huge resources of the state, tasking the state governor to justify almost N1 trillion revenue received by his government from November 2022 to September 2025. 

Our findings proved that the Adeleke government received N25 billion from Nov-Dec. 2022;  N182 billion in 2023; N333 billion in 2024 and N310 billion from Jan-Sept 2025, with little or nothing to show for it.

In just three months, July-Sept 2025, the Adeleke-led administration received as Federal allocation a whooping N124 billion, representing an average of N41 billion per month (see Page 9 of the Osun State Budget Implementation Performance report published on October 28, 2025 on the state's official website), yet the Osun citizens are gasping for breath and survival on account of the hopeless economic policy of Governor Adeleke

Given the huge allocation accrued to the state in just few months, no youth of the state deserves to be subjected to the hardship the administration has installed upon them. 

Just yesterday, the students of the state university in Ilesa were on the streets of the ancient town protesting the satanic school and accommodation fees that Governor Adeleke and his puppets in the University of Ilesa have imposed on them. 

In UNILESA, the Osun state government charges N800,000:00K for a room per session.

Accomodation outside the school is not different: it is exploitative and far beyond the reach of an average student. 

If the Osun State Government does not charge students of UNILESA as much as N1.5 million per session, would the shylock landlords, who now find joy in exploiting the unsuspecting students, have the temerity and excuse to financially condition and paralyze the students? 

As the students in Ilesa are crying over the cut-throat school fees and arbitrary house rent, so also their counterparts in the Osun State University, Osogbo, are wailing over similar luciferian school fees. 

In UNIOSUN, some students pay as high as N1.5 million too, excluding accommodation which is now on the border of N600,000 - N1,000,000, depending on the quality of facilities in the apartment. 

Unfortunately, while Governor Adeleke should have settled down to  address the plights of the students and people of the state, as a responsible leader would do, he is visiting different night clubs, dancing from one state capital to another, frittering away the resources that should have been deployed to fund education and other key sectors of the economy. 

In Ibadan, over the weekend, Adeleke became a butt of jokes at a music concert when he was found dancing like an untamed video vixen. The sight was a classical case of Nero esconsing and fiddling in Antium while Rome was burning. It was a terrible scene to experience. 

It is pathetic that despite  the N310 billion made thus far this year, the Osun State Government has only disbursed N7.8 billion of the N27 billion, representing 29 per cent, budgeted for capital projects in the education sector in the fiscal year. Similarly, of the N5.9 billion budgeted for capital projects in the agriculture sector, merely N528 million, representing 9 per cent of the estimate, was disbursed as at the end of September. 

The total disbursement for capital projects was N82 billion, barely 43 per cent of the budget estimate for capital expenditure. That is 26 per cent of the revenue made. 

We, as a party, find it incongruous that a governor who touts himself as "Mr Project" only spent 26 per cent of his government's revenue in 2025 on capital projects, whereas no Kobo was disbursed to settle N6 billion of the gratuity arrears estimated to be paid this year. On what, then, is people's money being appropriated? 

It is obvious that the revenue of the state is being used to service Governor Adeleke and nurture the stomach of his unproductive acolytes.

e-SIGNED:

Sooko TAJUDEEN LAWAL,                            Chairman, Osun State APC.