Ahead of the Osun state governorship election scheduled for August 9, an aspirant under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Minister of Youth Development, Senator Akinlabi Olasunkanmi, yesterday blasted Governor Rauf Aregbesola, describing him as “a man without managerial competency.”
Olasunkanmi said this when he came to the party national secretariat to pick his nomination and expression of interest forms at the cost of N11 million.
He decried the extravagant way at which the governor borrowed money, and lamented that till date “nobody knows how much debt the governor owes.”
The former minister called on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and other security agencies to monitor Aregbesola and All Progressives Congress (APC) so that they will not be able to achieve the malpractices they were known for.
Briefing journalists shortly after picking his forms, Olasunkanmi, accused Aregbesola of dividing the state along religious lines.
He said it would be uncharitable to say Aregbesola had not done anything so far in the state, stressing that “the question is whether what he has done is commensurate with IGR to the state and debt that he has accrued for the state.”
He said the Oponmo computer project was over-hyped, and that only 2, 000 computers out of 150,000 earmarked by government had been provided.
The former minister said the state government had refused to disclose the debt profile of the state, adding that “we don’t know how much debt he is owes, anytime we ask they become abusive.
“But it is the right of every Osun indigene to know how much they owe. It is either they don’t know or they are ashamed to disclose it.”
He said all the aspirants must agree on consensus, stressing that the supposed consensus candidate must be a loyal member of the party, “who does not threaten to defect.”
