Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke
Multiple sources told me last week that what came across in the governorship poll as a ringing endorsement of Adeleke, especially by civil servants, was actually a defence of group self-interest under a government unwilling or incapable of curbing corruption in the civil service…. “It was a game of rub-my-back-and-I-rub-yours,” a source said, “by a governor desperate for reelection and civil servants desperate to enjoy their booming ungoverned side hustle.” Is this civil service still fit for purpose? What will happen after Adeleke is blowing in the wind.
The money that politicians didn’t spend in Osun during the 15 August governorship election was the money they didn’t have and couldn’t steal. All kinds of figures have been bandied about, in hundreds of millions and billions. It’s difficult to say if these are over- or underestimations. But damn, it was some cash!
Credible sources suggest that the main opposition, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), may have spent nearly ₦40 billion (Davido told News Central it was ₦110 billion), mainly through contributions from the 20 governors and at least 50 members of the National Assembly, who descended on the state for four days.
