Submit Evidence To Anti-graft Agencies, Not Media, Adeleke’s Aide Tells Consultant

The spokesperson to Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, has challenged the CEO of Sally Tibbot, Sa’adat Bakrin-Ottun, and her lawyer, Jiti Ogunye, to submit any evidence in their possession to anti-graft investigators rather than taking their claims to the media.

Rasheed also threatened legal action over what he described as the unlawful recording and circulation of private conversations involving the governor’s Chief of Staff, Kazeem Akinleye.

In a statement issued in Osogbo, Rasheed said the matter raised by the consultant was already under investigation, questioning why she and her counsel had resorted to media appearances, including an interview on Television Continental (TVC), instead of presenting their claims to the appropriate authorities.

During the TVC programme and in a video circulating on social media, the consultant played a voice recording in which a male voice, allegedly that of the Chief of Staff, was heard angrily speaking to another person.

Rasheed said Akinleye acted within his responsibilities as a gatekeeper to the governor by resisting attempts to push through an audit report that would have “defrauded the state and destroyed the careers of hundreds of legitimate workers listed as ghost workers without just cause.”

He further accused the consultant of violating the law by recording and sharing private calls on national television with intent to malign the Chief of Staff, describing it as a “grave breach of cybercrime and data laws” and warning that court action would soon follow.

Rasheed maintained that neither the governor nor his Chief of Staff regretted their actions, which he said were aimed at upholding due process, labour laws, and anti-corruption standards.

“The matter is now before the anti-graft agencies. If the consultant has any other details aside from her report and that of the re-verification committee, she should submit them to investigators instead of junketing from one media station to another. Osun people already know the truth—that the governor stopped a scam that would have caused human misery and financial loss to the state,” he added.