By Sodiq Yusuf
The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) in the State of Osun has asked Governor Adegboyega Oyetola to step up the business of governance and stop glorifying the payment of workers salary as an achievement.
Chairman of the PDP in the state, Sunday Bisi in a statement on Friday, asserted that the present administration is ‘petty’ with what it described as the “inglorious promotion” of what is an obligation to the state workforce.
Bisi was reacting to a statement credited to the Commissioner for Political Affairs and Inter Governmental Relations, Mr Taiwo Akeju that the commitment of the government to the payment of salaries is laudable and commendable.
The opposition party maintained that such statements by political office holders meant the reduction of governance to a joke.
“How could a normal memo exercise in a serious administration of PDP government suddenly changed into a poster achievement of a state governor since advent of APC government in Osun State,” the statement stressed.
Mr. Bisi said, “We would want to know whether the governor or and his indolent commissioner are not drawing their bogus salary and allowances from the state’s treasury, even while doing virtually nothing, for the likes of Akeju to be asking us to roll out drums for Mr Oyetola for paying workers, who have been brain boxes of governance right before Akeju was hired as a commissioner in a ‘vuvuzela’ ministry,” the PDP retorted.
“Having reduced governance to such a joke however, we demand that the governor finds a way round payment of outstandimg entitlements of public servants in the state, including the over 30 months unpaid workers salary, as well as similar volume of butchered pensioners monthly token, which have been left unattended to since Oyetola rusumed with his fraudulent government of policy denial.
“Though, we sympathize with Mr Oyetola for sweating so profusely in search of legitimacy and acceptability in a state he is extremely unpopular as a mandate looter. However, he should stop his penchant for barefaced lies, trying to curry undeserved public pity with utter disregard for personal dignity of the retired workers”.
