By Akinwale Kasali
With less than threes months to the 2027 Elections, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ogun State Chapter, has raised concerns over what it views as non functionality of Governor Dapo Abiodun in the State, alleging that it seems it has abdicated Office for the All Progressives Congress, APC, Governorship Candidate in the State, Senator Solomon Adeola, popular as Yayi.
The PDP said it is with grave concern and utter dismay that the emerging reality in Ogun State, where a serving Senator has assumed the executive functions of the Governor, while the duly elected Governor appears to have abdicated the responsibility of his office.
Concerned about a recently published report where Yayi announced plans to reconstruct eight roads, renovate two schools, and establish a Free Trade Zone in Imeko-Afon Local Government Area, the PDP said it raises serious concerns.
According to the PDP as regards the report, the roads listed include Olokuta-Iwoye Road, O7 Resort Road, Ilara; Oke-Agbede-Moriwi-Iwoye Road; Yidi-Catholic Church Road; Ita-Oba Road, Ilara; Old Palace Road, Idofa; Yidi-Awela Road, Owode, Idofa; and the Community Comprehensive College, Idopa, Imeko-Afon.
He further disclosed that these projects are in addition to more than 30 road construction projects he has already undertaken across the local government area, and that construction work on the proposed Free Trade Zone would commence in December 2026.
Following this development, the PDP in a statement through Arc. Otunba Kayode Adebayo, the State’s Publicity Secretary, “wishes to ask the good people of Ogun State: Is this the function of a Senator? Is Senator Adeola now the Acting Governor of Ogun State?”
PDP said a Senator is a lawmaker. His constitutional mandate is legislation, oversight, and representation. He is not empowered to function as a parallel government, awarding road contracts, renovating schools, and establishing Free Trade Zones as though the office of the Governor were vacant.
The PDP however asks,
Where is Governor Dapo Abiodun? Has he surrendered the levers of governance to a Senator? Or has the Senator usurped them with the tacit approval of an administration that has grown weary of governing?
The PDP is demanding an immediate, transparent, and independent probe of the source of funding for Senator Adeola’s projects.
“A Senator’s legitimate earnings, constituency allowances, and zonal intervention funds are matters of public record. They do not, by any reasonable arithmetic, account for the scale, frequency, and extravagance of these interventions: over thirty roads in one local government, eight more roads, two schools, and a Free Trade Zone.
“From where does this money come? From what purse? From what budget? From what private fortune? And under what law?
“If these funds are public funds, the people of Ogun State are entitled to know the source, the appropriation, and the procurement process. If they are private funds, the people are entitled to know the origin of such immense wealth, and whether it is consistent with a public servant’s legitimate income.
“In a democracy, silence is not an answer. It is an indictment. A probe is not persecution. A probe is accountability”, the statement reads.
The PDP further maintains that corruption remains the defining trait of the Yayi political enterprise, and Ogun State does not need a corrupted man to govern it.
“A man who cannot account for his wealth cannot be trusted with the wealth of a state. A man who distributes money without explanation today will loot without restraint tomorrow.
“Ogun State is a state of scholars, of industry, of honour, and of intellectual rigour. It cannot be reduced to a marketplace where governance is purchased with unaccounted funds and loyalty is bought with largesse”.
The PDP therefore calls on:
1. Governor Dapo Abiodun to explain to the people of Ogun State why he has abandoned his executive responsibilities;
2. Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola to publicly disclose the source of funding for his projects;
3. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC), and the Code of Conduct Bureau to immediately investigate the source of these funds in the interest of transparency and good governance.
The PDP added that until Senator Adeola explains the source of his funding, and until Governor Abiodun explains his apparent abdication, the people of Ogun State have every right to ask:
Who is governing Ogun State?
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