Osun state governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has said that there is no iota of truth in Justice Folahanmi Oloyede’s petition against him because she is deliberately seeking to tarnish his image.
Aregbesola made this revelation during the 50th birthday of the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Mr. Najeem Salaam.
He said “After examining the petition written by the judge, I asked myself if she had any point but I found none. It was a tissue of lies. There was no iota of truth in it. They said Osun government collected N538bn.
“The judge knows the code of conduct of judicial officers. She dabbled into what she should not have dabbled into.
“For those thinking her allegations are true: assuming without conceding that Osun collected N10bn in a month and we have 48 months in four years: the total money collected in 48 months would be N480bn. That is not even up to the N538bn she claimed but we did not collect N10bn a month, we did not even collect N5bn.
“That fact deflates one of the lies. If the judge was telling lies why couldn’t journalists check how much Osun was collecting from the records? If I collected N538bn, Osun would have been far better than how it is.”
He promised to pay outstanding workers salary by the end of the month. He said “We will be free before the end of the month.”