Osun APC tackles PDP over delay in disbursement of N2bn fuel subsidy palliative

<p>The All Progressives Congress, APC in Osun State has raised alarm over the alleged refusal of Governor Ademola Adeleke to disburse the N2 billion federal government fuel subsidy removal palliative for the vulnerable in the state.</p>, <p>The Osun APC Chairman, Tajudeen Lawal, who raised the alarm in a statement on Saturday, noted that it was worrisome that Governor Adeleke is still confused on what to do with the money when other states had since completed the process of disbursement.</p>, <p>Lawal said, “The delay in the disbursement of the N2 billion by Adeleke as and when due is a sheer act of wickedness and confirmation of lack of empathy by the PDP administration for the needy in the state.</p>, <p>“Governor Adeleke and his co-travellers should tread with caution if the news going around in the state is true that the state government has fixed in the bank the said N2bn to take an undue advantage of the accrued interest.”</p>, <p>The Osun APC Chairman advised Adeleke to effect the disbursement of the fund to the needy without further delay, saying, “He doesn’t need to wait for the people to die of hunger until something positive in that regard is done.</p>, <p>“If the Adeleke administration is callous, insensitive and wicked enough not to activate its own arrangement to cushion the effects of the fuel subsidy removal for the people of the state, it should not be a stumbling block to share the ones provided by the federal government led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.”</p>, <p>He recalled that Governor Adeleke did not share the rice palliative until he was revved and pressured by the main opposition party in the state and that the exercise was done in a shoddy manner targeted to benefit only the members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.</p>, <p>But in a swift reaction, the Osun State government dismissed the APC allegations as mere rhetoric.</p>, <p>The state government also urged the people of the state to be wary of schemes by the opposition to pitch them against the Adeleke administrati