Yusuf Oketola
The Governor-elect of the State of Osun, Senator Ademola Adeleke has warned against alleged plan by outgoing Governor Adegboyega Oyetola to recruit recently interviewed 75,000 Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme (OYES) volunteers into the state civil service.
Adeleke, in a statement issued on Tuesday by his Spokesperson, Mallam Abdulrasheed Olawale, described the alleged recruitment plan by Oyetola as a calculated attempt to further financially cripple the state.
He accused Oyetola of using the OYES cadets for election purpose, noting that the recruitment came few weeks to the July 16 governorship election.
The statement reads in part: “Our attention has been drawn to a diabolical move by the outgoing Osun state government to issue letters of appointment to about 75,000 O-Yes volunteers. We remind the public that the state government had shortlisted the volunteers for election purpose few days before the last election.
“The APC government even went overboard by collecting and registering the voter’s cards of OYES applicants all in its desperate bid to win the governorship poll. When all scheming and plotting failed, the state governor has now embarked on his Plan B which is to further wreck the state by deepening her current bankruptcy and indebtedness.
“There is nothing, except deep hatred for Osun people, that will make a government struggling to pay salaries and pensions to want to illegally recruit 75,000 new staff. There is no justification except a desire to impoverish and punish people for exercising their rights to vote out an insensitive, lying government.
“We use this medium to call on Governor Oyetola to toe the path of honour and responsibility by not destroying the state further through his many vindictive post-election actions and plans. The Governor should be reminded that his hostile post-election actions are further eroding what remains of his goodwill.
Reacting to the allegation, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor, Mr. Ismail Omipidan noted that the current administration in the state will not succumb to any cheap blackmail from the PDP.
Omipidan stated this while appearing on a private radio station in Osogbo on Tuesday. He said the O-yes recruitment process, as known to the people of the state, started before the July 16 governorship election.
He submitted that he could not confirm or deny whether the shortlisted OYES cadets will be absorbed into the civil service or not.
