Media aide to Osun state governor, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon has said that Aregbesola "has a record that will be hard to beat in public finance especially given the magnitude of the works done in relation to the resources that are available to the state"
In a statement responding to the petition against the governor by activist, Yinka Odumakin to the EFCC, he said Aregbesola had such a record that, even the ICPC requested he be a lead speaker at its lecture in 2014.
“Please, let them ask the ICPC when they take their petition there next time for a copy of a letter by the anti-graft body written to Governor Aregbesola last year which formed the basis of the agency’s resolve to have Governor Aregbesola as the lead speaker at its lecture in 2014.
“Perhaps, that will further confirm why their efforts to blackmail this governor are exercises in futility”. he said.
Odumakin, had accused the governor of massive corruption and financial recklessness, which according to him had plunged the state into a financial mess over what he termed failure of leadership.
According to Odumakin's petition, “the state 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 and wickedness”.
Odumakin emphasized that the state was awaiting the EFCC to ensure that the state’s funds were recovered in order to have meaningful progress.
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