…extol ex-gov’s virtues
Osun State Youths under the aegis of Congress of Progressive Youth (COPY) has berated the state’s chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party over its poor rating of the immediate past governor of Osun State and current Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Alhaji Isiaka Adegboyega Oyetola, in the President Bola Tinubu-led Federal cabinet.
COPY said that the PDP as a party had been blind folded by the politics of bitterness, which they were known for, to rate Oyetola as one of the poor performing ministers of President Tinubu in the last one year of the administration.
The group, which however gave kudos to Oyetola for making Osun State and her citizens proud in the administration of President Tinubu and for being good representative of the state in the Federal cabinet, urged the Osun PDP leaders and members to purge themselves of politics of bitterness which has been retrogressing the current administration of Governor Jackson Ademola Adeleke in the area of performance despite the huge allocation accruing to the state from the Federation Account.
COPY also gave pass mark to former governor Oyetola for performing excellently well as pioneer Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, which has made the ministry to increase the income generating revenue base of the Federal Government today.
This development, the group added, has been the fulcrum of revenue allocation to the 36 state Governors, including Adeleke.
It alleged that upon all the huge allocations accruing to the Osun from the Federation account, the PDP Government could not show any tangible achievement to justify this.
Rather, COPY accused the state Government of embarking on “misplacement of priority and political jamboree cum dancing as hobby.”
COPY stated all these in its reaction to a statement credited to the Osun State PDP Chairman,Mr. Sunday Bisi recently, which rated Oyetola poorly as pioneer Minister of Marine and Blue Economy.
COPY’s Chairman and Secretary, Mr Ibrahim Aderinto and Lekan Ibrahim (Legacy), in a jointly signed press statement after the group’s weekly meeting in Osogbo on Wednesday extolled the virtues of Oyetola as a financial expert and administrator par excellence who took the Osun out of “a financial quagmire that gave prosperous life to Adeleke’s Government thereafter.”
The statement made available to newsmen, stated that the excellent performance of Oyetola as governor of Osun State between 2018 to 2022 and as performing current Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, made the good people of the state to be yearning for his return as governor of Osun State in 2026 for a second term in office.
It described Oyetola as a refined political leader, saying his leadership qualities were second to none.
“It is sad that Sunday Bisi-led Osun PDP and his doomed cohorts could not see the achievements and excellent performance of Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola as Minister of Marine and Blue Economy in the cabinet of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu because of politics of bitterness which beclouds the party’s (PDP) sense of judgement.Oyetola has made the good people of Osun proud as good representative of the State in the Federal cabinet and Oyetola’s wealth of experience in public financing and administration saved Osun State from brink of collapse while he held forth as Governor of the State,” the group’s statement partly read.
