I pledge to file a petition against Abiodun – the boss of Ogun LG

Suspended chairman of Ijebu East local government area of ​​the state, Mr. Wale Adedayo, who was released on Monday after spending three days in the custody of the Department of Security Services of the state, said he remained steadfast in his demand that Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun should allow local governments in the state to access federal allocations for the development of the base.

He also emphasized that he has no regrets about the actions he has taken so far despite his arrest and detention for three days.

Speaking to our correspondent in Abeokuta shortly after his release, Adedayo said he was arrested due to a petition sent by Governor Abiodun to the security agency in which he would have made inciting comments that could endanger the public peace.

The LG boss, who was suspended last Thursday by seven councilors from his local government for three months over allegations of mismanagement and financial mismanagement, however said he had told the DSS that he had never abused him. any inciting comments other than the letter written to former state governor Chief Olusegun Osoba in which he claimed that Abiodun had not funded local governments in the state for two years.

He also told the DSS that he would never retract his statement that there had been no allocation to local state governments.

He did, however, apologize to the governor if he felt that statement had embarrassed him, saying he only wanted the best for the people at the grassroots.

He further disclosed that other state LG presidents contributed to the letter written to Osoba on zero allocation to local governments, adding that he only edited it and had added his name to it.

He said he was surprised that his colleagues could give up the fight.

DSS, Adedayo said: “He claimed that there was a letter from Governor Prince Dapo Abiodun that I was making inciting comments against the state government, but I told them there was no such thing nor who did they say I instigated? They said I had planned a protest, but I said I didn't know about it and told them I had only done what my conscience told me I had to do and I did it with my other colleagues and chairs, even though they all introduced themselves. back. My conscience is very clear in the letter I wrote to Chief Olusegun Osoba, former state governor and national leader of our party, the APC.

"Some of the presidents contributed to the letter, I just wrote the letter, put my name in it, then sent it and what is written in the letter affects all board chairs, so it's not about getting their support or not. So what the governor wanted me to do was retract what was in the letter, but I said I wouldn't. The DSS later said the governor said I embarrassed him and I said if the governor felt I embarrassed him, I'm sorry but the truth is the facts are there: "I don't I don't fight with governor Abiodun, he is my friend, he is my egbon, my elder brother, but in my opinion, if the local governments are doing well, it is all to the credit of the governor.

People will talk about him and I gave them the example of the government of Otunba Gbenga Daniel between 2003 and 2011. If you go to the 236 districts of the state, you see the footprints. of this grassroots government, people will say that Daniel did this, he did that, but it was the presidents of the local government who carried out all these projects and yet, until today, people will shout the name by Gbenga Daniel. This was all made possible because the governor allowed local governments to access their federal allocations.

“So I said the same thing would happen if Governor Abiodun allowed local governments to access their funds. And then they asked about sponsorship, I'm 57 and I know what's good for people, nobody sponsors me and they said I should apologize and recant but I said no. I said if the Governor said he was embarrassed I'm sorry but I also added that if the Governor had funded local governments it would have been to his credit I wrote all of this for the DSS .

When told that the Joint Accounts Allocation Committee, charged with the responsibility of managing the municipal fund in the state, said no local government cents were missing, Adedayo said, "Let them tell that to the EFCC, I sent them my letters. Who is even JAAC? It's about the local government chairmen and if each of them claimed to have collected the money...