The Osun state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has described the Osun Masterminds as a wailing group of the state's All Progressive Congress (APC) that is still bitter about the July 2022 electoral defeat.

Reacting to threats by the group to drag the state to the anti-graft agencies over the recently unveiled multi-billion naira infra plan, the party in a statement by its State Chairman, Hon Sunday Bisi, said Osun Masterminds is so blinded by the loss of patronage it enjoyed under the former APC government that it remains deaf and dumb to due process compliance already ongoing on the infra plan.

Bisi said in a statement issued on Monday and personally signed by him: “The Mastermind fought hard to get APC retained in power but the group and its sponsors were flatly rejected and disgraced by the people who voted massively for the PDP and its candidate, Governor Ademola Adeleke. Ever since then, the hired group has been acting as an unrepentant agent of rejected and defeated politicians.

“The public will recall that the state government has already announced an ongoing procurement process, bid advertisements have since been placed and a supplementary budget was already worked on by the State Assembly. A jaundiced group of stomach activists refuses to read clearly the statement of Mr Governor that all due process and procurement requirements are being complied with.

“The group despite having a supposed professor as a team lead is also silent on the Governor's clear statement that the fund for the infra plan is to be sourced from savings, cost cutting measures and broadening of the revenue base of the state. The Governor was categorical that a project account has been opened specifically to fund the infrastructure plan without borrowing a kobo from a financial institution.

“We wonder how saving money from frivolous expenditure as was in the past should warrant the threat of an anti-graft probe. It is even imbecilic of the group to threaten a state government for unveiling an infra plan even with full explanation of strategies of funding, justification for the projects and sustainability of the agenda. When will the so-called Mastermind accept the defeat of their masters who were defeated in four consecutive elections?

“We dare the APC group to go ahead with its threat even as we affirm that Osun has moved on from an anti-development leadership to a pro-pepple , development focussed governorship. PDP is running a government of due process and transparency. We will not be distracted by rantings of political jobbers masquerading under civil society activism.”

Signed

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