Gov rejects ‘inflated audit report’The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Osun State, Mr Bola Oyebamiji, has disclosed that, irrespective of propaganda, he will still defeat Governor Ademola Adeleke in a landslide in the August 8, 2026, governorship election. Meanwhile, the state government has rejected claims by Sally Tibbot Limited that 8,452 workers on the state payroll were “ghost workers,” insisting that a re-validation exercise revealed only 1,316 unseen employees and pensioners. The firm, hired in January 2023 to conduct a staff audit, had claimed that Osun was paying ghost workers N13,716,914,129.28 yearly. The state government confirmed 8,015 out of the 8,448 workers as active staff, with only 433 found to be unreachable. Reacting to the controversy, Allied Peoples Movement (APM) governorship candidate in Osun, Adewale Adebayo, described Adeleke’s defence as evasive and contradictory.

Source: The Guardian January 12, 2026 06:05 UTC