The Spokesperson to Governor Ademola Adeleke, Mallam Olawale Rasheed has described as "a pack of lies" the criticisms leveled against Adeleke's administration by Mr Remi Omowaiye, describing the sectoral analysis as "fraught with fake news".
He faulted allegations that the state governor mismanaged state funds, citing several locally and nationally acknowledged projects and programmes on which state funds were judiciously expended on.
Rasheed said Omowaiye lied by asserting that Osun has no electricity law as the law is already in operation in Osun state even as he said industrialisation is already ongoing with the revival of the Free trade zones abandoned by the last APC government.
The spokesperson also faulted attacks on the Okefia Bridge, calling the flyover in tandem with local and international engineering standards, positing however that the Olaiya bridge supervised by Omowaiye is already marked as defective needing proper load management.
Declaring that contractors handling state projects are publicly available, the spokesperson condemned Omowiaye for waging war against local content and local contractors whom he said have delivered excellent jobs at Okefia, Lameco and other critical state projects.
On security votes, the spokesman said the governor never drew security votes as slush funds as was done by the previous APC government, noting that security votes were only drawn to meet security needs of security agencies and the operational cost of tackling domestic communal crises.
"We challenged Omowaiye to run a fact based campaign. His statements today at the correspondent chapel were laced with lies and half truths.
“We affirm that based on his failure at the Osun investment agency, at the ministry of Finance and at the national waterways agency, Mr Oyebamiji is not an alternative for a performing incumbent who has taken Osun to number 7 from 33 in education rating, who moved Osun to first position in primary health care access and who moved Osun to number five in access to portable water across the 36 states of the Federation”, the Adeleke spox affirmed.