The new Osun state Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has directed the reversal of all appointments made in the state by the previous administration.
The governor has also frozen all state accounts with immediate effect.
He also ordered the comprehensive review of all policies and government decisions in the state from July 17, 2022.
This forms part of the decisions stated by the governor in his Inauguration address today at the Osogbo Township Stadium at the state capital.
The Governor also ordered a revert to the name of Osun State, from the State of Osun, as well as the state’s appellation, from the State of the Virtuous, to the former State of the Living Spring.
He solicited the support of the people of the state, to deliver on his five point agenda to the people.
“My Good People of Osun, since you elected me as your Governor on the 16th of July 2022, which the INEC announced on July 17th 2022, the former Governor, Alh Isiaka Gboyega Oyetola maliciously started putting road blocks to make things difficult and almost impossible for the new administration to serve you.
“Mass employment were carried out without budgetary provisions for salary payments for the new employees; even when the state was struggling to pay salaries and deliver other services. Various hurried and criminally backdated Contracts were awarded and again without budgetary provisions.
“Appointments of several Obas were hurriedly done without following due process, just to mention a few.
“It is therefore my desire to ask for your patience and understanding to give my administration a few weeks to review and sort out all the actions and malicious confusions which the immediate past administration has created since July 17th 2022. Those actions were indeed vindictive measures against the people of Osun State for voting them out of office.
“Consequently, I hereby issue the following directives which will be backed up with appropriate Executive orders:
Immediate freezing of all government accounts in banks and other financial institutions
“Immediate establishment of a panel to carry out an inventory and recover all government assets.
“An immediate establishment of a panel to review all appointments and major decisions of the immediate past administration taken after the 17th July, 2022
An immediate reversal to the constitutionally recognised name of our state, Osun State. All government insignia, correspondences and signages should henceforth reflect Osun state rather than State of Osun which is unknown to the Nigerian constitution.