Oyo APC Faults Makinde’s N110m Budget For Under-20 Nigeria Match 

Oyo State section of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has criticised Governor Seyi Makinde implicit the determination of the authorities authorities to bankroll the shot lucifer betwixt Nigeria’s Under-20 pistillate shot squad and their Rwandan counterparts with N110 million.

APC noted that the magnitude was astatine the disbursal of galore captious responsibilities requiring the attraction of the authorities government.

The party’s State Publicity Secretary, Olawale Sadare, successful a connection connected Monday, decried specified spending astatine the clip workers of the Ladoke Akintola Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, person down tools.

Sadare lamented that the wellness assemblage successful the authorities would soon beryllium grounded arsenic the authorities section of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) was acceptable to commence full concern enactment successful solidarity with their colleagues astatine LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso with October 2, 2025, deadline.

“It is simply a tallness of insensitivity connected the portion of a authorities that cannot worth the beingness of its citizens to prioritise spending connected a shot task which belongs to the national government.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the qualifiers lucifer betwixt the Nigerian Under 20 girls and their Rwandan counterparts had been enactment successful the twelvemonth 2025 fund of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) done its genitor body-Nigerian Sports Commission (NSC) and determination are nary reports that either the NFF oregon Federal Government asked Governor Makinde to assistance them retired successful hosting the match.

“As a substance of fact, the exigency determination of the Oyo State Government to pull the lucifer to the debased prime Lekan Salami Stadium successful Ibadan raised a batch of questions which beg for answers.

“The determination was hurriedly backed up with a fund of N110 cardinal which has been removed from the authorities treasury immediately,” Sadare said.

He added that, “One mightiness not recognize the implications of reckless spending by the existent PDP medication successful the authorities until a wider look is taken astatine astir captious sectors which person been abandoned.”

Sadare reechoed the demands of the striking LAUTECH aesculapian workers arsenic procurement of modern instrumentality similar Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Machine to cater for patients, among others.

“Worse inactive X-ray machines and ambulances are luxury successful astir of these hospitals portion qualified unit discontinue the work of the authorities authorities successful droves connected regular ground owed to negligence and high-handedness connected the portion of the Makinde administration.

“Nigerians emotion shot but pistillate Under 20 qualifiers cannot beryllium their precedence astatine the moment. Therefore, Governor Makinde should walk a little magnitude connected the lucifer and usage the equilibrium to hole immoderate of the problems successful LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso,” Sadare stated.