Osun Govt Fires Back At Ex-Governor Oyetola, Denies Culpability In N700Million Contract Abnormally

SaharaReporters earlier published how the Osun Notify authorities below the leadership of Gboyega Oyetola, awarded three contracts to the tune of N700 million between July 2020 and April 2021, for rehabilitation of 1 boulevard.

The Osun Notify Knowledge Commissioner, Alimi Kolapo, has reacted to claims made by the spokesman for ex-governor Gboyega Oyetola that the narrate below the leadership of Ademola Adeleke is to be blamed for the violation of procurement act reported by SaharaReporters.

In an announcement sent to SaharaReporters, the commissioner postulated that such statements are counterfeit.

Kolapo talked about, “The appreciate of Osun narrate Authorities has been drawn to 1 other huge lie and deliberate distortion of information by the spokesperson for the used Governor of Osun Notify, Mr Adegboyega Oyetola, in person of Mr Ismail Omipidan, on a present document by Sahara Journalists.”

The narrate authorities denied that the document published by SaharaReporters used to be orchestrated by it, noting that the investigation used to be “independently utilized by Sahara Journalists, with out any enter of Ademola Adeleke-led administration”.

The statement, however, necessary that “it is expedient to space the document straight, in particular for the harmless individuals of the general public to grab the actual fact and nothing however the actual fact versus a dummy already being sold to them, inter earlier, by Omipidan, all in an strive to smear the rising profile of Ademola Adeleke led administration”.

He talked about, “When Sahara Journalists, in its investigation, found the anomalies by Oyetola- led administration and sought the reaction of Oluomo Kolapo Alimi, the Hon. Comm. for Knowledge and Public Enlightenment and Mallam Rasheed Olawale, the Chief Spokesperson to the Governor, none of us, urged Sahara Journalists anything else but asked for 2 weeks grace below which to fabricate our have just investigation, earlier than commenting on the talked about document that emanated from Sahara Journalists.

“What told the need for us to leer for 2-week timeframe used to be so to get the significant info of the matter in impart to insulate us from being accused of jumping into an unverified conclusion.

“On the opposite hand, Ismail Omipidan, in his fashioned stomach-aching journalistic mischief, borne out of his limitless futile makes an strive to color Ademola Adeleke-led administration unlit, unintelligently, went ahead to whine Adeleke-led authorities because the sponsor of the Sahara Journalists findings.”

Kolapo furthermore denied pointing out that the boulevard project in Akoda used to be earlier awarded.

He talked about, “Furthermore, Mr Omipidan went ahead to position words within the mouth of Oluomo Kolapo Alimi that Alimi admitted that, the Akoda boulevard dualisation project had earlier been awarded earlier than the Osun Notify Authorities went relief to ideal the due process.

“A blatant lie, it used to be and unruffled is, in his fashioned mischievous and characteristics of continuously giving a dog a wicked title in impart to hold it, which, over time has change into his journalistic antics all in an strive to curry the favour of his pay grasp, Mr Oyetola.

“What Oluomo Kolapo Alimi the Hon. Commissioner for Knowledge and Public Enlightenment talked about and which is already within the general public enviornment in regards to the Akoda boulevard dualisation project used to be that, at a time limit when it used to be painfully unmotorable for the motoring public to exhaust, it used to be Ademola Adeleke-led administration that made a more or less palliative preparations to impress the passage of vehicles more uncomplicated earlier than the ongoing boulevard project contract noticed the gentle of the day.”

Kolapo Alimi furthermore refuted claims that the narrate authorities used to be now not going about its duties by due process, lampooning Ismail for suggesting such.

He talked about, “It has to be emphasised that the Authorities of Ademola Adeleke is continuously due process compliant and would possibly perhaps just now not fabricate any project with out following the nicely-established traditional note of due process.

“Omipidan and his co-travellers in journalistic mischief would possibly perhaps furthermore just unruffled know and proceed to grab that the correct americans of Osun Notify are no fools as they possess got found that the instant past administration of Mr Adegboyega Oyetola, will lumber down in historical past because the poorest ever skilled by the americans of the narrate, which they pray, day and night, never to experience again.

“Omipidan and the Osun APC would possibly perhaps furthermore just unruffled know that there might perhaps be now not any quantity of packaging that will be executed for the failed authorities of Mr Adegboyega Oyetola when he held forth because the Chief Executive to, curry the favour of Osun americans again, as well to to his being judged at the moment at some stage within the Nigerian federation by just observers as one among the worst performing Ministers within the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Federal Executive Council (FEC).”

SaharaReporters earlier published how the Osun Notify authorities below the leadership of Gboyega Oyetola, awarded three contracts to the tune of N700 million between July 2020 and April 2021, for rehabilitation of 1 boulevard.

A assessment showed that the narrate awarded three contracts for the identical rehabilitation between July 2020 and April 2021.

These contracts totalled N700.2 million in price at N233.4 million every.

All of those contracts had been awarded by declare labour with out any competitive bidding, in flagrant abuse of the Osun Notify Procurement Act, 2015.

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