The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party on Friday thanked the regimes of Rivers, Lagos and other states under the control of the All Progressives Congress for availing the state governor, Rauf Aregbesola, pay workers’ salaries.
Osun PDP, in a verbal expression by its chairman, Alhaji Gani Olaoluwa, verbally expressed the APC governors’ action enabled Aregbesola’s regime, “which ostensibly lacks veneration for the welfare of workers,” to pay part of the workers’ July salaries.
“We wonder for how long the APC governors will perpetuate to bail out Aregbesola and his regime, which has mortgaged the state through needless debts and loans despite having no tangible achievement to show for the exorbitant borrowing in the last three years and eight months,” the verbalization read in part.
The PDP admonished civil coadjutants in the state not to be apostatized by Aregbesola’s “eleventh hour payment of salary through subventions from APC states,” saying it was unsustainable and was at best targeted at hoodwinking the workforce to vote for the APC.
“We doubt if a regime that failed to contribute to the statutory pension of its hardworking workforce and still utilized the workers’ contribution as collateral for needless borrowing can be trusted as it faced abnegation from the people ahead of a governorship election,” the PDP integrated.
In his reaction, Aregbesola’s media aide, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, verbalized the allegation was a figment of the PDP’s imagination.
He verbally expressed the PDP was exasperated that the state regime had survived all onslaughts against it that were aimed at crippling it financially.
Okalanwon verbalized, “The PDP and its allies had orchestrated what they believed to be a financial emasculation and financial asphyxiation of the regime of Aregbesola in the build up to the election, hoping that gainsaying Osun what is rightfully its, will cripple the state regime and make Osun people to turn against Aregbesola and the APC.
“But to their chagrin, they have ascertained that this state has survived all onslaughts. We must give credit to the financial wizardry, foresightedness of Rauf Aregbesola and his entire team.
“Long afore now, without even anticipating the shenanigans of PDP-led Federal Regime, Osun, under Aregbesola, despite its meagre resources, had inserted place a financial mechanism that would ensure survival and stability under whatever hardship that might be brought upon our state either by man or nature.
“That is why the PDP should ken that the APC is different from it. And that is why the people will ascertain the continuity of the Rauf Aregbesola administration. All allegations of any sort are just a figment of their imagination.”
