The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has advised the people of the state to brace up for austerity measures which it described as the only way out of the economic crisis the state was facing.
The party Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy in Osun State, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, gave this advice in a statement issued in Osogbo on Saturday to congratulate the labour unions and state government for finally resolving the delayed salary impasse.
While attributing the economic crisis in the country to the alleged misrule of the Peoples Democratic Party-led Federal Government, the APC said, “This will take a lot of sacrifice and belt tightening to fix. Every citizen must be prepared to experience one form of austerity or the other in the mean time, if we are to expeditiously overcome the damage done by the PDP to the nation’s economy. Something has to give way for better things to happen.
“It is not the government that will bear the brunt alone, the people should be prepared to share in making sacrifices, so that we can build a future for our children.”
The ruling party, which blamed the PDP for the criticisms which have trailed the inability of the state to pay its workers for many months, stressed that the opposition party orchestrated the attacks against the government to discredit it.
“Of the number of states in the country where this same crisis persisted, it was only in Osun that a satanic twist was orchestrated by the PDP to magnify the sad event. This is because desperate politicians murderously seeking power will stop at nothing to exploit people’s misfortune for their selfish political ambition,” Oyatomi noted.
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