Ifon/Ilobu Crisis: APC Flays Adeleke Over Conduct At Maiden Edition Of ‘Ipade Imole’

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned the state Governor Ademola Adeleke to desist from constantly being a vicious source of embarrassment to the people of the state through his actions and inactions as the state Chief executive of Osun.

According to the state chairman of the party, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, in a statement issued by the party’s Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi, in Osogbo, on Friday, the crude way that Adeleke handled his first feedback programme in eleven months tagged ‘Ipade Imole’ yesterday was nothing but a display of the theatre of absurdity.

The state APC chairman who also accused Governor Adeleke of lack of empathy, wondered why the governor was seemingly comfortable to hold such a programme amidst singing and cracking of jokes while lives of innocent souls were being cut short in the lingering communal clash between the people of Ifon-Osun and Ilobu in about five kilometres away from the venue.

Lawal observed that “the totality of the conduct of Adeleke throughout the duration of the programme revealed that he is ill-prepared or lacks in quantum the natural endowments required to successfully govern the state.

He stated that “the time-wasting Ipade Imole which ran for several hours where Adeleke talked much without substance afforded the people of the state a golden opportunity to discover that the governor is not only an expert in dancing but he is an unrivalled political comedian who trivializes serious matters affecting the state for lack of not knowing what to do, how to do it and when to do same.

The Osun State APC chairman also observed that apart from the fact that Adeleke was superfluous and empty yesterday, the whole exercise turned out to be a tirade whereby the governor was openly demanding to be clapped for by his burdened and embarrassed audience.

He hinted that he could not blame all the radio stations but one which yanked off the programme from their stations when it became visible that the governor could not meaningfully and concisely communicate his thought.

Lawal stated that never in the history of the state has any governor had such a poor showing in public engagement.

In Lawal’s words: “Based on the verifiable poor scorecard of Governor Adeleke, it will not be out of tune to state that the unsuspecting people of Osun State have unwittingly entered a proverbial one chance vehicle with Adeleke on the driver’s seat.

“Adeleke and his political co-travellers could be likened to metaphorical bandits who successfully snatched a vehicle key from its rightful owner but without a required skill to start the vehicle’s engine let alone move it.

“Whatever the political firmament of the state may be today, there is a solace in the fact that it is a passing phase”, Lawal stated.