The Transparency and Accountability Network (TAN) has referred to as on the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to examine the Senator representing Ogun West within the National Assembly, Senator Olamilekan Adeola, over the collection of allegations, particularly alleged appropriations and mission scandals which have allegedly triggered deeper financial pains for Nigerians even after gas subsidy elimination.
The civil society organisation mentioned till he clears his title, Senator Adeola has no enterprise contesting for any elective place in 2027 or sooner or later, stressing that “Nigeria is not a Banana Republic that can be operated as a private commercial enterprise.”
In a press release signed by its President, Dr. Oluwole Oladapo, and titled “Senator Solomon Adeola (Yayi) Cannot Go Into An Election Without Clearing Allegations of Appropriation Corruption”, TAN mentioned Nigeria was too large to enable such scandals to be swept underneath the carpet with out safety businesses inviting the Senator.
Adeola, the 2027 governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Ogun State has been enmeshed in collection of controversies.
The assertion mentioned, “As an organisation dedicated to public integrity, TAN asserts that there’s nowhere within the civilised world the place a person aspiring to a public workplace of such nice significance can be allowed to contest with out satisfactorily clearing his title of significant moral clouds.
“The ongoing reliance on the power of incumbency to shove candidates down the throats of the electorate without addressing fundamental crises of integrity undermines the core values of our democratic space.”
Advocating for Adeola’s quick disqualification from the 2027 gubernatorial race, the group warned related businesses towards taking the matter with levity.
TAN additionally referred to as for investigation into Adeola’s position as Appropriations Committee Chairman, noting that repeated claims that the APC candidate’s committee allegedly inserted untraceable or duplicated initiatives within the funds and allotted funds to businesses outdoors their statutory mandates, shouldn’t be swept underneath the carpet.
“Beyond identity disputes, we are calling on relevant anti-corruption agencies to immediately intervene and investigate the Senator’s performance as the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations,” the assertion mentioned.
The group referenced a petition by PASSEC towards Adeola, stating, “It seems to us that the petition by The Pan African Society for Social & Economic Change (PASSEC) submitted to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) that alleged irregularities in federal budgets between 2023 and 2026, claiming the insertion of untraceable or duplicated projects and the allocation of funds to agencies outside their statutory mandates has been left unattended.”
It added, “All Nigerians are aware of the scandalous and epileptic nature of annual budget implementation in this country. The citizens cannot just focus on the Executive organ of government alone because most of these unprecedented budgetary break-and-quench anomalies are caused by the malfunctioning of the Appropriations Committee of the National Assembly which Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola (Yayi) presides over. The entire mess originates from there.”
“The democratic values of our nation are at stake when serious allegations are glossed over by political structures. We cannot treat allegations of this magnitude as mere political noise,” TAN President declared.
To this finish, the Transparency and Accountability Network of Nigeria demanded an instantaneous intervention by safety businesses, saying that related legislation enforcement and anti-graft businesses should completely examine the statutory claims and monetary oversight tracks related to the senator’s workplace.
“We call on political parties to refrain from bypassing ethical scrutiny in the deployment of candidates for significant public offices,” TAN mentioned.
The group maintained that democratic accountability should stay the inspiration of true management.
“Therefore, we demand that till all these allegations have been correctly and satisfactorily cleared, all processes relating to the Senator’s governorship ambition needs to be placed on maintain.
“As a matter of fact, he deserves to be immediately disqualified from the race pending the outcome of a full investigation into all these anomalies being alleged by several stakeholders in Nigeria,” the CSO mentioned.
