APC Accused of Looting Osun LG Funds; PDP Demands Account Disclosure

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of diverting over six months of local government allocations, calling on the party to publicly disclose the bank accounts and signatories that received the funds.

In a press statement made available to journalists on Sunday, the Osun PDP Chairman, Hon. Sunday Bisi, described an earlier APC statement admitting receipt of local government allocations as an “admission of crime.” The PDP contended that the ruling party had refused to clarify whether the funds went into legitimate council accounts or were misappropriated.

“Rather than engaging in name-calling and reckless propaganda against the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), we challenge the APC to come clean before the people of Osun State by publicly disclosing the exact bank accounts into which the local government allocations were paid and the signatories to those accounts,” the statement read.

Bisi alleged that statutory officers of all 30 local governments, the state accountant-general, the auditor-general for local governments, and the ministry of local governments were unaware of any such payments, raising serious questions about governance and transparency.

“The questions are simple: into which accounts were the allocations paid, and who are the signatories? We join NULGE, civil society, and the people of Osun in demanding full disclosure, or we will conclude that the APC and its leaders have staged the greatest heist in the history of Nigeria,” he added.

The PDP reaffirmed its commitment to transparency under Governor Ademola Adeleke, asserting that no intimidation or blackmail by the APC would undermine its resolve to ensure accountability in the management of public funds.