The National Secretary of All Progressive Congress (APC), Ajibola Bashiru suffers from Adelekephobia syndrome, a form of political disease now afflicting many within the rank and file of the opposition party in Osun State
Spokesperson to Governor Ademola Adeleke, Mallam Olawale Rasheed made the assertion while responding to attacks on the governor by the opposition secretary during an interview on TVC.
“Adelekephobia is ravaging the opposition camp so deeply that when they see white, they call it black; it makes patients incapable of telling the truth even when their nuclear families point it out to them.
“ Osun was recently ranked 7th out of 36 states in the national examination ranking. Under Mr Bashiru’s government between 2018 to 2022, Osun was placed 33rd. Because of Adelekephobia, Mr Bashiru must still condemn Governor Adeleke’s records on education.
“Some few months back, Osun came first on primary health access in the South West with a prize of $500,000. But the opposition secretary cannot see it because under a government where he served, Osun was ranked 28th in primary health care access.
“Also recently, the federal Debt Management Office commended Osun for reducing state inherited debt by 40 percent. Mr Bashiru cannot acknowledge such a high level of financial engineering and discipline even without borrowing a kobo unlike the financial recklessness under a government in which he was then a leading figure.
“Not that alone, this disease affected everything. Imagine the audacity of an Adeleke who tarred the road leading to Mr Bashiru’s house, thereby shaming a big man in the previous government who rode daily on potholes filled roads.
“Osogbo, where Mr Bashiru hails from, enjoys an unprecedented level of infrastructural upgrade in just two years. When the secretary will drive on the Okefia flyover, he will still deny the existence of the bridge because of Adelekephobia”, the Spokesperson noted.
While pitying the National Secretary for his being ditched by the “Amunbo” caucus of his party, Mr Rasheed posited that the disease has no cure, submitting that the more the disease spread within the APC, the more Osun people accepted the Adeleke administration.
“We are not praying for any cure for that disease, Osun people are not infected. Our people are not blind to good governance, to workers” welfare, to pensioners’ better lives, to infra revolution, to new five star stadium coming up at Osogbo, to tractors now plowing our farms, to our universities that are thriving, to accessible primary health care among others”, the statement concluded.
