Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has described the petition submitted to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) by an activist, Yinka Odumakin, as a “media hype”
Odumakin, the national publicity secretary of pan Yoruba group, Afenifere, had on behalf ‘Osun Stakeholders’ tendered “Petition against Governor Rauf Aregbesola for financial recklessness, corruption, money laundering and fraudulent application of Osun State’s resources”,
The group said a forensic audit of the Osun State government accounts had become necessary as the state was already bankrupt and had become the poorest state in Nigeria.
The petition said Osun “is littered with abandoned projects even though loans were secured by this administration to execute them. Today, our dear state has become the embodiment of lack, poverty, purposelessness, wickedness and insensitivity of political leaders of the highest order in the country.”
But reacting, Director of the Bureau of Communication and Strategy in the Office of the Governor, Semiu Okanlawon, said the petition submitted by Odumakin bears semblance with the same petition submitted by Justice Oloyede, which has been dismissed by the State’s House of Assembly.
He said:“I dont think serious minded people take Odumakin serious again. After brainwashing a judge to waste her status and privilege of being a judge of a High Court to join the fray against Aregbesola on their dubious agenda, their next strategy is to keep making noise all over the places with hyped visits to EFCC, or ICPC.
“The question discerning Nigerians should ask Odumakin, Niyi Owolade, and other sponsors of this mindless pull-him-down project is: ‘With all the anxieties raised by the frivolous allegations against the Governor by their hired judge, why did the Judge chicken out when called upon by the House of Assembly to which they made her to submit her petition?
“Why did they also not encourage her to pursue her petition to its logical conclusion by simply availing the EFCC the opportunity to defend and substantiate the allegations when invited?’
“Nigerians are no fools and so, Odumakin’s trip to EFCC today is another in the series of their media hype all aimed at keeping the subject of their destructive mission in the minds of the people. It is a failed project”.
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