Why Sally Tibbot Cannot Divorce Oyetola’s Administration

 Why Sally Tibbot Cannot Divorce Oyetola’s Administration

The letter of engagement recently circulated by the APC lying machine has unintentionally exposed a record they have been trying so hard to distort. It confirms what many already know but some still struggle to deny; Sally Tibbot actually audited past governments. The paper trail speaks for itself, and no amount of revisionism can rewrite documented events.

The facts are as follows:

When Oyetola was still in office, in October 2022, Sally Tibbot appeared before the Adeleke transition committee to make a presentation on why the incoming government must audit Osun payroll. On that day, she painted a full picture of what she described as billions of naira being lost to payroll scam under the Oyetola administration, stressing the urgency for the incoming administration to halt the bleeding and rescue the state’s finances.

That was October 2022. Governor Ademola Adeleke was sworn in on November 28, 2022. If she now claims she did not audit Oyetola payroll, why did she make a detailed submission to the Adeleke transition committee at a time the new governor had not even assumed office?

What was the basis of her presentation if not an audit or review of the existing payroll structure under Oyetola?

On the very first day of Governor Adeleke in office at Imọlẹ House, Madam Sally Tibbot returned to follow up and justify why the inherited scam must stop. She further alleged that Chams, which was managing the payroll, was complicit in the arrangement. 

That was on the Governor’s first day in office. If she now insists she did not audit Oyetola payroll, why was she at Imọlẹ House on day one submitting further proof on why the outgoing system must be audited and why Chams should be changed as payroll manager?

Barely two months into the new administration, in January 2023, Madam Sally Tibbot submitted a proposal for staff audit. The proposal restated her earlier submission at the Transition committee and again justified the need for staff audit. This was January 2023. 

If she is now denying auditing the past, was her submission intended to probe a Governor who had been in office for less than two months?

By May 2023, when she was formally engaged with a four-month mandate, the obvious question remains: who was she supposed to audit? 

A Governor who had not appointed a single staff? 

A Governor who retained Chams, the payroll manager from the Oyetola administration? 

The timeline defeats the denial.

The bottom line for the public to note from the above three points is straightforward.

Madam Sally Tibbot is now a hired gun of the Osun APC. Any attempt to call white black cannot stand against documented chronology and her own submissions.

Overall, Osun has since moved on. The state now operates a World Bank supported SIFMIS which has cleaned up the payroll system, strengthened transparency, and ensured that public funds are better protected. 

The conversation today is no longer about whether there was a problem, but about how decisively it has been addressed.

@Public Media Interest