Osun PDP Faults APC’s  Comments on Salary

Yinka Kolawole in Osogbo

Osun State Chapter of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has described Osun State’s All Progressives Congress (APC) comment on the state government’s March salary as an opinion of a financially illiterate organisation. 

In a signed statement made available by the Osun PDP’s Caretaker Chairman, Dr. Adekunle Akindele, said that Governor Ademola Adeleke is a leader who has kept every promise he made to the people of Osun State.

Akindele said: “Widely named ‘a talk and do governor,’ Adeleke’s popularity has moved from 70 pe rcent to over 90 per cent in the last three months. His job approval rating is beyond 80 per cent. The APC’s rating is below 10 per cent, as evidenced by recent surveys and outcome of recent elections.

“Osun State workers understand the imperative of the delay from last week as it was meant to serve their interest to ensure payment of their long-awaited promotion arrears, which the last APC government denied them. They know they will soon start receiving alerts from Monday.

“Workers across the sector are appreciative of Adeleke’s innovative and shrewd handling of state’s finance, which addresses the basic needs of the people and attends to the critical infrastructural needs of the state.

“After failing for four years to pay the promotion arrears, contributory pensions and the half salary of workers in Osun state, the APC is shamed by the sterling records of Adeleke’s administration, which included clearing all the messy legacy of the previous government. This explains its unfounded vituperations and false alarm on Osun finance.

“I want to assure the shameless APC leadership that the Adeleke administration is managing Osun resources very judiciously with the best interest of the people at heart.

“The PDP’s government is not a sadist led government of Gboyega Oyetola, which thrived in human wickedness and man’s inhumanity to man.

“The PDP government met a state already run aground by the APC but is now with ingenuity taking the state out of doldrums by focusing on human development, revival of abandoned infrastructure and delivery of urgent social services like water and health services.

“The Osun’s APC peopled by men and women of wicked characters boldly rejected by the people of Osun State should apologise to Osun people for the years of locust it foisted on the state and learn lessons of good governance from a governor who had done more for the people under three months than the four years of Oyetola in power.”