It is 6 years that Osun state governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has been steering the affairs of the state. He was returned to office in November 27, 2014 for a second term. So many things can be said to be wrong with Ogbeni's 6 year old administration in the state. Below is a lost of some of them.

1. Government without Commissioners: Ogbeni rauf Aregbesola has been running his 2-year old second term government without commissioners. Aregbesola ascribed the delay to the paucity of funds, saying that the purse of the state has been reduced.

2. No Local Government Elections: The last local government poll held in the state was conducted by a PDP-led government in 2007. Since 2011, billions have gone into statutory monthly allocation with no evidence of development in the local governments.

Governor Aregbesola has failed to reveal the total debt exposure of the local governments that he has ran through executive secretaries for over 5 years.

3. Jailing Students: Students who downloaded films on the freely distributed Opon Imo were sent to Ilesa prison. This would not have happened if the government weighed several options before implementing it.

4. Demolition and Merging of Schools: Osun state under Governor Aregbesola demolished merged post-primary schools in the state. This was against the interest of the teachers, students, and alumni associations. Also inimical to the future of students, especially final year students whose examination centres were demolished. This policy of the government was ill-timed and causes a lot of dislocation and hardship for the students, whose identity were erased from the school.

Aregbesola also demolished several houses and shops along Osogbo-Iwo, Ogo Oluwa - Old Garage -Ayetoro - Ota Efun. road. People were made homeless, and with only few of them compensated.

5. Controversy With The General School Uniform: Governor Aregbesola also introduced the school uniform for all state primary and secondary schools in the state. This action didn't go well with the schools, teachers and religious organisations as it destroyed the existent school structure. Through free, it is quite difficult to differentiate students of a school from the other. Religious organisations kicked against it because of a hidden inscription “Ella” discovered in the new school uniforms distributed to all pupils in both primary and secondary schools in the state.

6. Huge Borrow And Uncompleted/Abandoned Projects: No doubt, governor Aregbesola has plunged the state into huge debt with an increased rate of state's borrow, but with abandoned projects in the state. Governor Aregbesola took loans on projects that are grandiose and without direct impact on the lives of the people – federal roads and flyovers that hardly got off the drawing board, airports construction that has been left abandoned.

7. Hijab Crisis: The recent hijab crisis has not been handled maturely by the state governor, who threatened to expel students who wear robes to school. Justice Jide Falola of the Osun State High Court had on June 3 given a verdict that Muslim students should be allowed to wear hijab in all public schools in the state because it was part of their fundamental rights.

8. Free School Feeding Programme: As at now, there is nothing productive with the free school feeding programme. It has not been sustainable overtime in Osun state. It though provided jobs for some local food vendors but resulted in huge debt for the state. Governor Aregbesola did not consider the state's economic capacity before investing in such an expensive welfare programme.

9. Misplaced Priorities: Osun state receives paltry sum from the nations treasury due to a heavy debt burden and now relies solely on the allocation giving to LG from the treasury to survive, yet Governor Aregbesola has created additional 30 LCDA and wants to build a 19 billion naira airport before he leaves government. In addition to misplaced priority is the “Opon-Imo” N8.6billion Project. The state is yet to develop for such an expensive project, the reason why students abused it. Today, where is the Opon-imo?

10. Backlog of Salaries: Despite Federal Government bailout funds, Osun is one of the states with terrible backlog of salaries. Some workers are being owed for 6 months, some half-paid, and some have not been paid at all.

11. Monopoly of Trade: Reports in some quarters reveal that the Omoluabi garment factory belongs to the niece of the deputy governor and that in giving her the monopoly to be the only one to sell and sew school uniforms in Osun could be said to affect the livelihood of thousands of tailors and material sellers in the state.

Source: https://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/11-failures-in-osun-state-under-governor-rauf-aregbesola.216192/

So every misinformed reader will easily be fooled by this piece and that is why I will take the time to address each issue raised;

1) Firstly, it is true that the governors does not have commissioners and the governor himself has explained why; It makes no sense to have a state where there are no funds to carry out governance as in Ondo and Ekiti but enough funds to pay commissioners who due to funds paucity, actually have nothing to do. The governor explained that he has not drawn salaries since last year, if he had commissioners he would not be able to keep their salaries away from them. So any body will prefer to have commissioners, how I see this, Ogbeni Aregbesola is making a sacrifice some other governors are not willing to make, for the state's finances.

2) As regards the local government elections, there is a subsisting court order against the elections and until that is set aside in the courts, Ogbeni will not ignore the courts and conduct elections. Especially when even states like Lagos that have no court injunctions have yet to conduct same elections.

3) On the jailing of students, while I do not have the complete facts on it, I know for certain that unless you are saying that there should no longer be retribution for doing wrong, there is no point to comment on there. And that some are reckless with Opon Imo as with every policy everywhere does not render the policy failed. Be guided.

4) On one hand, we complained of the dilapidated structures under which pupils were crammed into in Osun before Aregbesola. On the other hand, we complain when government finally demolishes those and move the students into world class structures? What exactly do we want? Has this writer seen the schools Osun is moving students to and the facilities? He has nothing to say about those? Let's also pretend this point was not made. Unless you're saying you prefer Osun children in those mud houses they were learning before.

5) You say the school uniform did not go down well with everybody. So I ask, how is the same now functioning without problem? The uniform was done to promote unity and remove the segregation that was already rising among students in schools of varying qualities. It is fully embraced today by all parties. Say another one.

6) As at today, I can confirm to you that no governor in the entire South West has commissioned as much projects as Aregbesola has this year. So where are the abandoned projects? One of the criticisms Ogbeni gets is that while workers are owed salaries, roads and other projects are being built. And Aregbesola has always retorted that workers represent only a percentage of his people and so salaries and developmental projects must move on at similar pače. Every week for the past few months if our writer was observant, Aregbesola has been inspecting sites particularly roads/bridges/schools with some commissioned and others with work ongoing. No one can say projects have been abandoned in Osun and expect me to take him serious. To be honest, that is a lie.
7) The Hijab crisis in the state is not the doing of Aregbesola as the governor has repeatedly stated but it is understandable that some people abhor the truth when it goes against their narrative. The crisis was a fallout of a court judgement secured by the muslim community and the CAN responding in an uncivil manner by inciting illegality in our schools. At that point, Aregbesola got involved to stop the campaign being promoted by CAN and since then, the issue has died down. So Ogbeni Aregbesola actually came in to douse the tension, he did not create it. But say what you like please.
You say there is nothing productive in the school feeding programme but World Bank recently appraised Osun for it, and Kaduna, Abia and the FG are following Osun's steps on the programme now. Do your research well, mister.
9) That a governor wishes so much development for a small state like Osun cannot be termed "misplaced priorities". Opon Imo has been a success in the state, the state has successfully built schools whose standard will now be copied nationwide, agriculture has become embraced locally and when the Federal Government supports with its part funding, Osun will have the first airport maintenance hub in the entire West Africa opening the state to serious business opportunites and opening the state's tourism potential. If that is what you call "misplaced priorities" compared to where Osun was coming from under the PDP, we are all for misplaced priorities in Osun please. Thank you.

10) Backlog of salaries is an issue not any governor is happy of. Yet President Muhammadu Buhari has said himself that with the current state of the economy, 27 out of 36 states can not afford salaries of workers, so do not make this problem sound peculiar to Osun. It is not not a problem for Osun alone and does not in any way arise from Aregbesola's management of the state. If at all, Aregbesola has managed the situation well by opening books to labour, thereby using transparency to win trust of labour and avoid strike action like we have in Ondo and Ekiti, where even the governor is on strike.

11) This rumour has been long proven to not be true. And the fact you said "reports in some quarters" also shows you are basing your "failures" on hearsay which is a journalistic failure.

I hope I have been able to correct the writer if he did not intentionally wish to malign Ogbeni Aregbesola but more importantly, I hope this addresses the readers who could have been misinformed by this pack of falsehoods. Let us strive to ask questions more and be more accurate in our writings for posterity will judge us. This desperation to soil Ogbeni's name is unwarranted and condemnable

G1gbolahan:
So every misinformed reader will easily be fooled by this piece and that is why I will take the time to address each issue raised;

1) Firstly, it is true that the governors does not have commissioners and the governor himself has explained why; It makes no sense to have a state where there are no funds to carry out governance as in Ondo and Ekiti but enough funds to pay commissioners who due to funds paucity, actually have nothing to do. The governor explained that he has not drawn salaries since last year, if he had commissioners he would not be able to keep their salaries away from them. So any body will prefer to have commissioners, how I see this, Ogbeni Aregbesola is making a sacrifice some other governors are not willing to make, for the state's finances.

2) As regards the local government elections, there is a subsisting court order against the elections and until that is set aside in the courts, Ogbeni will not ignore the courts and conduct elections. Especially when even states like Lagos that have no court injunctions have yet to conduct same elections.

3) On the jailing of students, while I do not have the complete facts on it, I know for certain that unless you are saying that there should no longer be retribution for doing wrong, there is no point to comment on there. And that some are reckless with Opon Imo as with every policy everywhere does not render the policy failed. Be guided.

4) On one hand, we complained of the dilapidated structures under which pupils were crammed into in Osun before Aregbesola. On the other hand, we complain when government finally demolishes those and move the students into world class structures? What exactly do we want? Has this writer seen the schools Osun is moving students to and the facilities? He has nothing to say about those? Let's also pretend this point was not made. Unless you're saying you prefer Osun children in those mud houses they were learning before.

5) You say the school uniform did not go down well with everybody. So I ask, how is the same now functioning without problem? The uniform was done to promote unity and remove the segregation that was already rising among students in schools of varying qualities. It is fully embraced today by all parties. Say another one.

6) As at today, I can confirm to you that no governor in the entire South West has commissioned as much projects as Aregbesola has this year. So where are the abandoned projects? One of the criticisms Ogbeni gets is that while workers are owed salaries, roads and other projects are being built. And Aregbesola has always retorted that workers represent only a percentage of his people and so salaries and developmental projects must move on at similar pače. Every week for the past few months if our writer was observant, Aregbesola has been inspecting sites particularly roads/bridges/schools with some commissioned and others with work ongoing. No one can say projects have been abandoned in Osun and expect me to take him serious. To be honest, that is a lie.
7) The Hijab crisis in the state is not the doing of Aregbesola as the governor has repeatedly stated but it is understandable that some people abhor the truth when it goes against their narrative. The crisis was a fallout of a court judgement secured by the muslim community and the CAN responding in an uncivil manner by inciting illegality in our schools. At that point, Aregbesola got involved to stop the campaign being promoted by CAN and since then, the issue has died down. So Ogbeni Aregbesola actually came in to douse the tension, he did not create it. But say what you like please.
You say there is nothing productive in the school feeding programme but World Bank recently appraised Osun for it, and Kaduna, Abia and the FG are following Osun's steps on the programme now. Do your research well, mister.
9) That a governor wishes so much development for a small state like Osun cannot be termed "misplaced priorities". Opon Imo has been a success in the state, the state has successfully built schools whose standard will now be copied nationwide, agriculture has become embraced locally and when the Federal Government supports with its part funding, Osun will have the first airport maintenance hub in the entire West Africa opening the state to serious business opportunites and opening the state's tourism potential. If that is what you call "misplaced priorities" compared to where Osun was coming from under the PDP, we are all for misplaced priorities in Osun please. Thank you.

10) Backlog of salaries is an issue not any governor is happy of. Yet President Muhammadu Buhari has said himself that with the current state of the economy, 27 out of 36 states can not afford salaries of workers, so do not make this problem sound peculiar to Osun. It is not not a problem for Osun alone and does not in any way arise from Aregbesola's management of the state. If at all, Aregbesola has managed the situation well by opening books to labour, thereby using transparency to win trust of labour and avoid strike action like we have in Ondo and Ekiti, where even the governor is on strike.

11) This rumour has been long proven to not be true. And the fact you said "reports in some quarters" also shows you are basing your "failures" on hearsay which is a journalistic failure.

I hope I have been able to correct the writer if he did not intentionally wish to malign Ogbeni Aregbesola but more importantly, I hope this addresses the readers who could have been misinformed by this pack of falsehoods. Let us strive to ask questions more and be more accurate in our writings for posterity will judge us. This desperation to soil Ogbeni's name is unwarranted and condemnable

You are one of the people who has been misleading Ogbeni
How can only Ogbeni rule a whole state with for years without commissioners, no wonder the state is in trouble.
They said two good heads are better than one, can you imagine GMB to rule this country without ministers.
See good jobs Audu Ogbe is doing in Agriculture and others
The prayer of everyone in that state is for God to deliver them out of Ogbeni and you guys asap.

One billion naira per kilometer of road constructed

when wailers argue, this is me...

This dude took his time to reply every point made by the OP. That's what we call good response to an argument. So concise and well explained. If I hadn't read that with an open and objective mind, I had reject all you have written but No...dude, you did justice to all those allegations. OP over to you. Respond if you do not agree inan objective manner.

G1gbolahan:
So every misinformed reader will easily be fooled by this piece and that is why I will take the time to address each issue raised;

1) Firstly, it is true that the governors does not have commissioners and the governor himself has explained why; It makes no sense to have a state where there are no funds to carry out governance as in Ondo and Ekiti but enough funds to pay commissioners who due to funds paucity, actually have nothing to do. The governor explained that he has not drawn salaries since last year, if he had commissioners he would not be able to keep their salaries away from them. So any body will prefer to have commissioners, how I see this, Ogbeni Aregbesola is making a sacrifice some other governors are not willing to make, for the state's finances.

2) As regards the local government elections, there is a subsisting court order against the elections and until that is set aside in the courts, Ogbeni will not ignore the courts and conduct elections. Especially when even states like Lagos that have no court injunctions have yet to conduct same elections.

3) On the jailing of students, while I do not have the complete facts on it, I know for certain that unless you are saying that there should no longer be retribution for doing wrong, there is no point to comment on there. And that some are reckless with Opon Imo as with every policy everywhere does not render the policy failed. Be guided.

4) On one hand, we complained of the dilapidated structures under which pupils were crammed into in Osun before Aregbesola. On the other hand, we complain when government finally demolishes those and move the students into world class structures? What exactly do we want? Has this writer seen the schools Osun is moving students to and the facilities? He has nothing to say about those? Let's also pretend this point was not made. Unless you're saying you prefer Osun children in those mud houses they were learning before.

5) You say the school uniform did not go down well with everybody. So I ask, how is the same now functioning without problem? The uniform was done to promote unity and remove the segregation that was already rising among students in schools of varying qualities. It is fully embraced today by all parties. Say another one.

6) As at today, I can confirm to you that no governor in the entire South West has commissioned as much projects as Aregbesola has this year. So where are the abandoned projects? One of the criticisms Ogbeni gets is that while workers are owed salaries, roads and other projects are being built. And Aregbesola has always retorted that workers represent only a percentage of his people and so salaries and developmental projects must move on at similar pače. Every week for the past few months if our writer was observant, Aregbesola has been inspecting sites particularly roads/bridges/schools with some commissioned and others with work ongoing. No one can say projects have been abandoned in Osun and expect me to take him serious. To be honest, that is a lie.
7) The Hijab crisis in the state is not the doing of Aregbesola as the governor has repeatedly stated but it is understandable that some people abhor the truth when it goes against their narrative. The crisis was a fallout of a court judgement secured by the muslim community and the CAN responding in an uncivil manner by inciting illegality in our schools. At that point, Aregbesola got involved to stop the campaign being promoted by CAN and since then, the issue has died down. So Ogbeni Aregbesola actually came in to douse the tension, he did not create it. But say what you like please.
You say there is nothing productive in the school feeding programme but World Bank recently appraised Osun for it, and Kaduna, Abia and the FG are following Osun's steps on the programme now. Do your research well, mister.
9) That a governor wishes so much development for a small state like Osun cannot be termed "misplaced priorities". Opon Imo has been a success in the state, the state has successfully built schools whose standard will now be copied nationwide, agriculture has become embraced locally and when the Federal Government supports with its part funding, Osun will have the first airport maintenance hub in the entire West Africa opening the state to serious business opportunites and opening the state's tourism potential. If that is what you call "misplaced priorities" compared to where Osun was coming from under the PDP, we are all for misplaced priorities in Osun please. Thank you.

10) Backlog of salaries is an issue not any governor is happy of. Yet President Muhammadu Buhari has said himself that with the current state of the economy, 27 out of 36 states can not afford salaries of workers, so do not make this problem sound peculiar to Osun. It is not not a problem for Osun alone and does not in any way arise from Aregbesola's management of the state. If at all, Aregbesola has managed the situation well by opening books to labour, thereby using transparency to win trust of labour and avoid strike action like we have in Ondo and Ekiti, where even the governor is on strike.

11) This rumour has been long proven to not be true. And the fact you said "reports in some quarters" also shows you are basing your "failures" on hearsay which is a journalistic failure.

I hope I have been able to correct the writer if he did not intentionally wish to malign Ogbeni Aregbesola but more importantly, I hope this addresses the readers who could have been misinformed by this pack of falsehoods. Let us strive to ask questions more and be more accurate in our writings for posterity will judge us. This desperation to soil Ogbeni's name is unwarranted and condemnable

TheDevilIsALai:
One billion naira per kilometer of road constructed

The one who has his worthless father in hades . You should not continue your savagery . Your mother needs your attention in her psychiatry ward .
Don't dare run cowardly to report to the mods . You have murdered sleep !!

Aregbe has failed and he knows it.

Standing5:
Aregbe has failed and he knows it.

I have preference for APC, yet on Osun State leadership under them I will say they have failed. I think the state had been unfortunate having good person in wrong party and bad person in good party.
This is state under a visionary leadership, which should have been the one to restore the lost glory of SouthWest in agriculture.
The present individual in the office of a governor has demonstrated enough his incompetence to handle critical issues in political issue.

Aregbesola is a useless governor. A rascal like him should be in Iraq or Saudi Arabia..... Stupid, senseless, clueless, visionless, crazy, useless governor.

[size=13pt]No wonder Osun state keeps going under.

Can nairaland mods do the good people of Osun state a favour by moving this to frontpage, maybe, just maybe this will put pressure on Osun state govt to nake amenda[/size]

This is what happened when you have mediocrity as your ruler

M

Reminez:

The one who has his worthless father in hades . You should not continue your savagery . Your mother needs your attention in her psychiatry ward .
Don't dare run cowardly to report to the mods . You have murdered sleep !!

Kwararat

Some people that have never been to Osun state come online to talk rubbish while most of their state are walloping in adject poverty.

I can't imagine someone coming here to talk rubbish about the schools Aregbe built