Insolvency Responsible For Adeleke’s Failure To Pay Promotion Arrears In March-Osun APC

Osun state APC has accused Governor Ademola Adeleke of applying lies and diversionary tactics with regard to the running of the affairs of the state.

Happenings in the state have according to the party shown that workers in the state ‘have been unwittingly sweet-talked by Adeleke of the People’s Democratic Party’s (PDP) extraction into believing in his leadership’.

It would be recalled that Adeleke had blamed miscalculation and errors made by salary officers for the failure of his administration to fulfill the promise made earlier to include the promotion arrears in what was made available to government workers as salary for the month of March 2023 . The promotion was done  by his predecessor, Mr Gboyega Oyetola.

Acting Chairman of Osun state APC, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal in a statement issued in Osogbo  and made available to Team@orientactualmags.com   by the party’s Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi submitted  that the excuse given by Governor Adeleke for his inability to implement the cash backing of the workers’ promotion arrears was not genuine alleging that ‘ it was a mere diversionary tactics to further deceive the labour’.

‘As a responsible and responsive opposition party, we make bold to say that it was not true that there were miscalculations by salary officers. 

The fact remains that the prodigal Adeleke administration  has exhausted everything in the kitty. The workers have entered a proverbial one chance vehicle.

It was reliably gathered that the computation was done and correctly done. When it was collated with the March salaries, the governor discovered that they had fewer funds to take care of it.

Hence, Adeleke directed that it should be put on hold till the next allocation. In order to cover the shame, the bureaucrats were asked to divert the attention of the public by putting the blame of commission of errors in computation on salary officers. That was not the truth. It was a diversion.

It is saddening that the Adeleke administration could be fabricating lies about the livelihood of the people in the month of Ramadan and Lenten season without any iota of sympathy for the expectant workers.

It is now a public knowledge that the pensioners on contributory pensions who have been promised monthly payment of their arrears of half salaries that are yet to be paid for the month of March have started brooding to the extent that some of them have been sending weird messages to Chief (Mrs.) Dupe Adeleke-Sanni, to caution her brother, Ademola.

It was disgusting to learn that the pensioners who relied on their half salaries for the celebration of Easter festivity were utterly and sorely disappointed.

Some of the leaders of the disappointed and disenchanted pensioners are already regretting their blind support for the Adelekes.

If the state treasury could be emptied by Governor Adeleke and his co-travellers barely in four months of his government, a worthy medal should be presented to Oyetola who diligently and frugally managed the finances of the state for four years without any hindrance despite the obvious paucity of funds.

We want to also make it abundantly clear that the N1.5 billion bond extended to the Contributory pensioners by the Adeleke administration was only made possible because of Oyetola’s decision not to tamper with the remittances of the pensioners. If he had not ensured steady remittances, there was no way the extravagant Adeleke administration could have saved N1.5billion under three months’ the statement submitted- Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980. Thank you