The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised an alarm over the refusal of Governor Ademola Adeleke to disburse the N2 billion Federal Government fuel subsidy removal palliative for the vulnerable in the state.
The state chairman of the APC, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, who expressed his concern for the delay in the distribution of the Federal Government intervention fund to Osun, in a statement issued by the party’s Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi, in Osogbo, the Osun State capital today, stated that it was worrisome that when other states had since completed their process of disbursement, Adeleke is confused on what to do with the money.
Lawal explained that the delay in the disbursement of the N2 billion by Adeleke as and when due is a sheer act of wickedness and confirmation of lack of empathy by the PDP administration for the needy in the state.
He cautioned Governor Adeleke and his co-travellers to tread with caution if the news going around in the state is true that the state government has fixed in the bank the said N2 billion in order to take an undue advantage of the accrued interest.
The state APC chairman told Adeleke to effect the disbursement of the fund to the needy without further delay as he doesn’t need to wait for the people to die of hunger until something positive in that regard is done.
Lawal stated further that if the Adeleke administration is callous, insensitive and wicked enough not to activate its own arrangement to cushion the effects of the fuel subsidy removal for the people of the state, it should not be a stumbling block to share the ones provided by the Federal Government led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
He recalled that Governor Adeleke did not share the rice palliative until he was revved and pressured by the main opposition party in the state and that the exercise was done in a shoddy manner targeted to benefit only the members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.