The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has demanded for the immediate resignation of the state Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke.
The opposition party also stated that the Adeleke’s resignation letter should be apologetic to the unsuspecting people of Osun State whom he harvested their votes during the last staggered governorship election in the state.
The Osun State chairman of the APC, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, in a statement issued by the party’s Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi, on Saturday, stated that the people of the state have been witnessing more than enough embarrassments from Governor Adeleke within the eighteen months of his statutory allowance of four years of his first term.
Lawal explained that the latest of the embarrassments that Governor Adeleke obnoxiously earned for the state which parades the highest number of tertiary institutions after Ogun State was his inability to recite the first stanza of the old National Anthem, which the country has reverted to, even when he was using teleprompter to read it.
In Lawal’s words: “The displayed inability of Governor Adeleke to either recite or read the now adopted old National Anthem is a serious issue which should be of concern to the right-thinking indigenes of Osun State wherever they may be residing across the world.
“As a political party, we view the development of the inability of Governor Adeleke to recite the National Anthem as an embarrassment to all the stakeholders in the project called Osun State because of its debilitating image among the comity of the states making up the Federation of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“Governor Adeleke is aways in his best when he is needlessly displaying the talent of dancing and singing but remains semi-dumb whenever there is need for him to speak on or to vital issues that could be of interest to his government or the citizenry.
“It is for these reasons and many more that we, as a party, are demanding for the immediate resignation of Governor Ademola Adeleke for his incapability and incapacity in the office”, the Osun State APC chairman stated.
Meanwhile, Osun State government has ordered recitation of the newly reintroduced anthem by students on assembly grounds.
The government in a release signed by Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Murtala Jimoh gave the instruction in Osogbo, on Friday.
In the release by the state government, Jimoh directed that all schools in the state should ensure that they commence reciting the returned Anthem during their morning assembly.
The statement read, “The Federal Government recently approved a new National Anthem for the country, it is therefore pertinent for schools across Osun State to comply with this directive.
“As a result, all heads of schools in both public and private schools should ensure compliance in their various schools.
“It is expected that it is the new Anthem that should be rendered during their various morning assemblies and this should be done as a matter of duty.”
