Osun Will Not Vote a Former Commissioner for Finance Under Whose Supervision Workers and Pensioners Were Owed Half Salaries and Projects Were Abandoned.

Osun Will Not Vote a Former Commissioner for Finance Under Whose Supervision Workers and Pensioners Were Owed Half Salaries and Projects Were Abandoned.

Osogbo, December 22, 2025.

The recent boastful statements credited to the All Progressives Congress (APC) forced candidate Bola Oyebamiji have been widely dismissed as an afterthought and a desperate attempt at political revisionism.

A prominent Osun State politician has described Oyebamiji’s comments on the performance of Governor Ademola Adeleke as mere rhetoric, propaganda, and a calculated effort to deceive and mislead the people of Osun

Reacting to a journalist’s glowing portrayal of Oyebamiji as a capable hand who could “make Osun work,” the political stalwart expressed shock at what he termed Oyebamiji’s sudden discovery of Osun’s workability. He recalled that Oyebamiji was a key figure in the administration of former Governor Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, which between 2018 and 2022 deliberately abandoned numerous uncompleted projects inherited from the government of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, as part of a vindictive political agenda.

In a strong response to Oyebamiji’s claim of possessing the capacity to turn Osun around, Mr. Abayomi Ojo-Segun noted that it was ironic for the same man who served as Commissioner for Finance to now make such claims, having failed to persuade his principal to pay outstanding salary arrears and half salaries owed to Osun workers and pensioners.

According to Ojo-Segun, this failure clearly shows that if Oyebamiji were ever voted into office, he would merely become a “Baba-sọ-pe” governor, one without independence deriving authority and direction from the family and political interests of Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Ojo-Segun further stated that Oyebamiji lacks the courage and independence of the mind required to challenge or resist external control from Abuja or Lagos in the administration of Osun State affairs

In a private message to the journalist, he wrote:

“The same man who served as Commissioner for Finance and could not convince his boss to pay half salaries owed to Osun workers and pensioners cannot do anything tangible for the workforce, even if he were to become President. He would simply pursue the vendetta agenda of his political benefactors.”

He added:

“Osun people cannot afford to allow the good works of Governor Ademola Adeleke to suffer the same fate of abandonment that befell the legacies and uncompleted projects of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola under Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola”

Recalling the past, Ojo-Segun remarked:

“When the Buhari-led federal government allegedly used ‘remote control’ to impose APC and Oyetola on Osun in 2018, little did they know the state would move backward for eight years.”

He contrasted this with the current administration:

“Now that Governor Ademola Adeleke has taken charge and is straightening what was once crooked, Bola Oyebamiji has suddenly realized that what his boss claimed was impossible is actually achievable Why? Because Adeleke has refused to divert Osun resources to Lagos political leaders. Osun money is now being used to develop Osun State, not to entertain political elites at pepper-soup joints on the streets of Lagos.”

Ojo-Segun concluded his message to the journalist with a note of caution:

“I responded to you privately out of professional respect, as we both belong to the journalism profession. However, such courtesy may not be extended in the future if you continue to promote a candidate whose party’s policies are fundamentally anti-people, especially in Osun State.”

Thank you.

E-signed.

Abayomi Ojo-Segun,

Osun State,

Ojo-Segun writes from Osogbo Osun State, aojosegun@hotmail.com